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You can’t become truly comfortable with a skill until you’ve practiced enough to master it. But practicing it before you master it is uncomfortable, so you often avoid it.
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You don’t need to get comfortable before you can practice your skills. Your comfort grows as you practice your skills.
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Cognitive skills that amplify our ability to take in and understand information lay the groundwork for becoming a sponge. As we become more spongelike, we become better equipped to achieve greater things.
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It turns out that when people assess your skills, they put more weight on your peaks than on your troughs. People judge your potential from your best moments, not your worst.
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Hundreds of experiments show that people improve faster when they alternate between different skills. Psychologists call it interleaving…
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One of the most frustrating parts of honing a skill is getting stuck. Instead of continuing to improve, you start to stagnate. It feels as if you’ve reached the upper bound of your mental or physical capacities.
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…collective intelligence depends less on people’s cognitive skills than their prosocial skills.
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When we select leaders, we don’t usually pick the person with the strongest leadership skills. We frequently choose the person who talks the most.
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The people to promote are the ones with the prosocial skills to put the mission above their ego – and team cohesion above personal glory.
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If natural talent determines where people start, learned character affects how far they go. But character skills aren’t always immediately apparent. If we don’t look beyond the surface, we risk missing the potential for brilliance beneath.
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