Gregg Goodhart - The Learning Coach

Most of what made the Beatles great happened before anyone was listening.

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After a few weeks of small focused sessions, motivation moves from outside to inside. Practice starts driving itself. That's how a few weeks of work builds years of practice.

Take out the garbage or start practicing?

Getting yourself to start practicing can feel like getting a kid to take out the garbage. That resistance stops more people than the practice itself ever does.

There's a name for pushing past it: orienting selective attention. It's a buildable skill. Start with ten focused minutes a day, and the habit grows from there.

Practice that feels worse is often practice that's working. That's the sound of weakness leaving the performance.