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Teachers open the door

    In a prison cell, Malcolm X copied a dictionary by hand to teach himself the words he lacked. This Chinese… 

    Deep practice is not measured in minutes or hours, but in the number of high-quality reaches and repetitions you make.

    Deep practice is not measured

      Daniel Coyle argues that effective practice isn’t measured by the amount of time you spend, but by how deliberately you… 

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      All life is an experiment

        Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “All life is an experiment” encourages action over overplanning. Trying more things, accepting failure, and tracking attempts… 

        I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious by Albert Einstein

        I have no special talents

          Einstein’s line about having no special talent, just curiosity, is really about a habit anyone can build. He went from… 

          There are two types of people: Those who want to know more and those who want to defend what they already know.

          There are two types of people

            Morgan Housel’s quote contrasts curiosity with the impulse to defend existing beliefs. Charles Darwin recorded evidence against his theories, while… 

            I keep six honest serving-men. They taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling

            I keep six honest serving-men

              Rudyard Kipling’s six honest serving-men, what, why, when, how, where and who, come from his story The Elephant’s Child. Together… 

              He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever Chinese proverb

              He who asks is a fool

                An old Chinese proverb on why asking a question beats staying quiet, every time. 5 minutes of looking silly beats…