Book Titles

The traits that define great work require that you have something rare and valuable to offer in return… career capital.

You need to get good in order to get good things in your working life, and the craftsman mindset is focused on achieving exactly this goal.

The downside of the passion mindset is that it strips away merit.

…great accomplishment is not about natural talent, but instead about being in the right place at the right time to accumulate such a massive amount of practice.

…deliberate practice provides the key to excellence in a diverse array of fields…

…scientists have failed to find much evidence of natural abilities explaining experts’ successes.

It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.

…if you just show up and work hard, you’ll soon hit a performance plateau beyond which you fail to get any better.

…deliberate practice might provide the key to quickly becoming so good they can’t ignore you.

The good news about deliberate practice is that it will push you past this plateau and into a realm where you have little competition.