“It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.” WayStillsDifferentEndsHomeRiskDangerFineSoldierPlanesDifferent WaysInjuredBack Home Author:Kevin Powers
“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 in 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.” IfsWayInspirationalDifferentEndsCertainRealizingAbilityMistakePracticeStruggleWalkingBuiltErrorsEdgesIceHillsDifferent WaysMaking MistakesParadoxCoveredSmarterSlow DownStumblingSlipping Author:Daniel Coyle
“He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.” WayDifferentEndsChoicesAttentionWatchesToo MuchJourneyLaysAccidentsDifferent WaysComparisonPausesProbabilityAdjustment Book:The Rambler Source: The Rambler
“One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.” WayDifferentEndsAchieveStageTypeGeniusDifferent WaysConcentration Author:Stephen Spender