Think about anything you've ever become great at, an follow the same process to learn anything you want!
Don't worry about how well you do on your first try. Just take your shot, and be on your way!
Don't compare yourself to anyone else. Just focus on what you're doing!
Sometimes we need a coach. There's nothing wrong with asking for more help if we want to improve ourselves!
It's often important to understand the big picture first, before you try to get into the details.
Start with the small skills that make a big game possible.
Well...what ELSE would we be supposed to do after we learned the moves?
Once we've mastered the moves, we keep practicing to come up with new ways of doing them slightly more efficiently!
Instead of trying to escape work and do what you love, you can learn to love what you do.
When you know how to learn, you can learn whatever you want!
Dreading studying for the SAT, ACT, or final exams? Take a lesson about practice from the NBA's Most Improved Player Julius Randle and his coach, Tom Thibodeau.
If you’ve been “bad at math” for a while, and it feels like nothing you try to helps you improve, it’s time to try a different approach to the problem.
Steve takes one last look at Yuval's bowling adventure through the lens of a book about the science of developing expertise.
In Part Two, Steve talks about the master skill of learning, and how Yuval's ACT training has helped him improve several core skills that he'll be able to use to get good at whatever he wants!
Steve's student Yuval tells a story about using the mindset strategies he learned for ACT practice to quickly get better at bowling over the course of an evening...
Steve discusses lessons about learning that every student can benefit from in Josh Waitzkin's book The Art of Learning.
Steve talks about how sometimes, simply practicing twice as hard isn't the answer. He knows from experience.
Steve talks about Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, and how she responded to her early struggles to get her company off the ground.
"If you're using perfection as a club, remember this one thing: you're the one holding the club, and you can stop hitting yourself any time you want."
Tom talks about the seven simple steps of learning literally anything. It's always the same seven steps!
