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Tag Tag Skill development
One of the great pleasures in life is surprising yourself by attaining skills that you’ve admired and maybe even thought were beyond your reach.
Carol S. Dweck Self-Theories · 2000

Quotes

“Practice is nine tenths.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Power, 1860 · Primary source

“An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.”

Niels Bohr · Dr. Edward Teller’s Magnificent Obsession, 1954 · Secondary source

“Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.”

Carol S. Dweck · Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, 2006 · Primary source

“People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower.”

Carol S. Dweck · Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, 2006 · Primary source

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Experience 30 Discipline 19 Growth mindset 9 Patience 7 Practice 4 Repetition 2 Mastery 2 Expertise 2 Trial and error 2 Learning from mistakes 1 Self-discovery 1 Personal achievement 1 Overcoming perceived limitations 1 Natural talent 1 Practice and training 1 Learning potential 1 Developing potential 1 Artistic development 1