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…any knowledge about what makes us better at the things we want to do… can be used not just to make us richer but also to make us happier.
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…research doesn’t support the view that extraordinary natural general abilities… are necessary for high achievement.
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…research suggests very strongly… that the link between intelligence and high achievement isn’t nearly as powerful as we commonly suppose.
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…research tells us that intelligence as we usually think of it – a high IQ – is not a prerequisite to extraordinary achievement.
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45 |
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…abundant evidence show[s] clearly that people can keep getting better long after they should have reached their ‘rigidly determinate’ natural limits.
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Even if [an annual performance review] is well done, it cannot be very effective. Telling someone what he did well or poorly on a task he completed eleven months ago is just not helpful.
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When we learn to do anything new… we go through three stages. In the third stage… It’s automatic. And with that our improvement… slows dramatically, eventually stopping completely.
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…great performers never allow themselves to reach the automatic, arrested-development stage in their chosen field. This is the effect of continual deliberate practice – avoiding automaticity.
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Avoiding automaticity through continual practice is another way of saying that great performers are always getting better. This is why the most devoted can stay at the top of their field far longer than most people would think possible.
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Sometimes excellent performers see more by developing better and faster understanding of what they see.
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