Book Titles

The most important self-regulatory skill that top performers use during their work is self-observation.

The best performers observe themselves closely. They are in effect able to step outside themselves, monitor what is happening in their own minds, and ask how it’s going.

Research confirms what common sense tells us, that too high a standard is discouraging and not very instructive, while too low a standard produces no advancement.

Excellent performers judge themselves differently from the way other people do. They’re more specific, just as they are when they set goals and strategies.

The best performers judge themselves against a standard that’s relevant for what they’re trying to achieve.

…the key, in all deliberate practice, is to choose a comparison that stretches you just beyond your current limits.

If you set a goal of becoming an expert on your business, you would immediately start doing all kinds of things you don’t do now.

A mental model forms the framework on which you hang your growing knowledge of your domain.

A mental model not only enables remarkable recall, it also helps top performers learn and understand new information better than average performers.

A mental model is never finished. Great performers not only possess highly developed mental models, they are also always expanding and revising those models.