Quotes About Development

repetition. "Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts," he wrote in The Wisdom of Wooden.

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 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.

Although talent feels and looks predestined, in fact we have a good deal of control over what skills we develop, and we have more potential than we might ever presume to guess.

The road to success is paved with mistakes well handled.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. —Samuel Beckett

You will become clever through your mistakes. —German proverb

Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and start again. Slowly, and a little painfully, you explore the space over and over, attending to errors, extending your reach into the room a bit farther each time, building a mental map until you can move through it quickly and intuitively.

Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes myelin, and myelin makes perfect.

Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time.

Feeling stupid is no fun. But being willing to be stupid—in other words, being willing to risk the emotional pain of making mistakes—is absolutely essential, because reaching, failing, and reaching again is the way your brain grows and forms new connections.

If there is a remedy, I feel it must lie in how we prepare our young for life.

Others point to data showing that even as toddlers, 40 percent of American two-year-olds watch TV for at least three hours a day—hours they are not interacting with people who can help them learn to get along better. The more TV they watch, the more unruly they are by school age.

Experience, particularly in childhood, sculpts the brain. The

It's not the highs along the way that matter. It's who you become.

Ordinarily, small children learn much about emotions by looking at the other person's eyes, while those with autism avoid the eyes and so fail to get those lessons.

What can we change that will help our children fare better in life?

Todo padre sabe que, desde el momento de su nacimiento, un niño es tranquilo y plácido o, en cambio, irritable y difícil.

Coercive leaders demand immediate compliance. Authoritative leaders mobilize people toward a vision. Affiliative leaders create emotional bonds and harmony. Democratic leaders build consensus through participation. Pacesetting leaders expect excellence and self-direction. And coaching leaders develop people for the future.

Of course companies need leaders who beam in on getting better results. But those results will be more robust in the long run when leaders don't simply tell people what to do or just do it themselves, but have an other focus: they are motivated to help other people be successful, too.

Posner's group proposes that attention training should be part of the education of every child, giving a boost in learning across the board.

Estos avances hacia la apertura resultan muy alentadores porque sugieren que, en cierto modo, hasta las mismas pautas emocionales innatas pueden cambiar.

La capacidad emocional, pues, no constituye un dato inmutable puesto que, con el aprendizaje adecuado, puede modificarse.

largo de un proceso conocido con el nombre de «podado», el cerebro va perdiendo las conexiones neuronales menos frecuentadas y fortaleciendo aquellos circuitos sinápticos más utilizados. De este modo, el «podado», al eliminar las sinapsis menos utilizadas, mejora la relación señal/ruido del cerebro extirpando la causa misma del «ruido».

En resumen, pues, el reaprendizaje emocional –una tarea que, ciertamente, no concluye nunca– puede remodelar hasta los hábitos emocionales más profundamente arraigados de nuestra infancia.