Beyond High Performance: What Great Coaches Know About How the Best Get Better

We’re building a system in which they can redesign their minds. And once they have a mind designed to go beyond high performance, they start performing in ways that surprise even themselves.

the endgame is something else entirely. And for this kind of relationship, we’ve chosen to represent it with a fourth metaphor: the athlete.

To the athlete, practice isn’t something you do before you go to work. To the athlete, practice is the work. And work is practice.

In other words, the mercenary works to live.

This is because gratitude doesn’t flow from writing a note. It flows from seeing life as a gift, or developing what we might call a “gratitude mindset.” If you can help a child cultivate a grateful mind, then spontaneous actions of gratitude will begin to emerge that you, as a parent, would never anticipate.

the caveat to the ten-thousand-hour rule, mainly arguing that all practice isn’t equal by explaining Dr. Ericcson’s concept of “deliberate practice.” Miller writes, “The best way to get better at something is through something known as deliberate practice, which means practicing in order to get better: doing activities recommended by experts to dev