Interesting question:
Why do break-through performances sometimes ignite talent booms, and sometimes not?
The answer is that talent hotbeds possess more than a single primal cue. They contain complex collections of signals – people, images, and ideas – that keep ignition going for the weeks, months, and years that skill-growing requires.
“Even in a situation of poverty, a lack of opportunity is never the issue.”
– Stephen Larsen
“A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.” – Coach K.
“When it comes to your clients, be in a relationship business, not a transactions business. People will refund a transaction, but not a relationship.” – Dean Graziosi
“The FASTEST way to getting back on my feet is to find the right customer who will advertise for me through word-of-mouth referrals.”
Julie Stoian
“Don’t worry about losing. Think about winning.” – Coach K.
Self-discipline was twice as accurate as IQ in predicting the students’ grade-point average
“People often ask me, “What does it take to make money?” My answer is that it takes a dream, a lot of determination, a willingness to learn quickly, and the ability to use your God-given assets properly.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki (Expert Secrets – Russell Brunson)
“People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions, and help them throw rocks at their enemies.” Blair Warren (Expert Secrets – Russell Brunson)
If you want to be successful in any part of your life, you need to find someone else who is already doing what you want to do and model your efforts after theirs. – Tony Robbins (DOTCOM SECRETS – RUSSELL BRUNSON)
“I’ve learned that in order to be happy in life, you need to figure out what your talents and strengths are… then run with them! Don’t settle for anything less than what your abilities can get you.” – Trey Lewellen in Expert Secrets (Click below for your FREE copy)
“A little negative thing must be dealt with immediately – before it becomes a big negative thing.” – Coach K.
Two are better than one if two act as one.
And if you believe that two acting as one are better than one, just imagine what an entire team acting as one can do.
Coach K.
Struggle is not optional – it’s neurologically required: in order to get your skill circuit to fire optimally, you must by definition fire the circuit sub optimally; you must make mistakes and pay attention to those mistakes; you must slowly teach your circuit. You must also keep firing that circuit – i.e., practicing – in order to keep myelin functioning properly.
Daniel Coyle
“Leaders aren’t the only people who can think of innovative things. Good ideas can come from anywhere and everywhere. And often, they may come from the people you least expect to have them.” – Coach K.
“There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring, and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finder on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable.” – Coach K.
Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens — and when it happens, it lasts. The importance of reputation until automaticity cannot be overstated.
John Wooden
“One of my goals in establishing teamwork is always to get the team believing that they are part of something bigger than themselves.” – Coach K.
“If you’re always striving to achieve success that is defined by someone else, you’ll always be frustrated. Define your own success.”
Coach K.
“The second reason deep practice is a strange concept is that it takes events that we normally strive to avoid – namely, mistakes – and turns them into skills. To understand how deep practice works, then, it’s first useful to consider the unexpected but crucial importance of errors to the learning process.” – Daniel Coyle
