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
“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)
“A little negative thing must be dealt with immediately – before it becomes a big negative thing.” – 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.
“What made (John) Wooden a great coach wasn’t praise, wasn’t denunciation, and certainly wasn’t pep talks. His skill resided in the Gatling-gun rattle of targeted information he fired at his players. This, not that. Here, not there.“
“We think of effortless performance as desirable, but it’s really a terrible way to learn.” – Robert Bjork
“Sixty percent of what you teach applies to everybody. The trick is how you get that sixty percent to the person. If I teach you, I’m concerned about what you think and how you think. I want to teach you how to learn in a way that’s right for you. My greatest challenge is not teaching Tom Brady but some guy who can’t do it at all, and getting them to a point where they can. Now that is coaching.”
Tom Martinez
“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways – operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes – makes you smarter. Or to put it a slightly different way, experiences where you’re forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them – as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go – end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.” – Daniel Coyle
“The people inside the talent hotbeds are engaged in an activity that seems, on the face of it, strange and surprising. They are seeking out the slippery hills… they are purposely operating at the edges of their ability, so they will screw up. And somehow screwing up is making them better.” – Daniel Coyle
High performers can do almost anything they set their heart and their mind to. But not every mountain is worth the climb. What differentiates high performers from others is their critical eye in figuring out what is going to be meaningful to their life experience. They spend more of their time doing things that they find meaningful, and this makes them happy.
Brendon Burchard
Satisfaction is not the cause of great performance; it’s the result
Brendon Burchard
There is a tremendous difference between feeling the fear and doing it anyway and the freedom which comes from finding the space in yourself which is beyond fear. And the more time you spend living beyond fear, the sooner the answer to ‘What would I do if I wasn’t afraid?’ will become ‘Exactly what I’m doing now.'”
“When there are millions of dollars at stake, people sue each other and friendships are quickly thrown aside.”
Why not compress it and have all the things you want to do in the future take place right now?
Steve Hardison
“…coaching shows us, almost always, that the truth we don’t think we can handle will actually be what wins the trust of another person.”
Brandon Craig
Having your own intention be clear is everything. People don’t like being manipulated. They don’t like bait and switch, or the indirect approach. They want to know what we want and why.
Brandon Craig
