Here are some of the ideas Coyle shared that impacted me in this Little Book.
Tip #13 - Find the sweet spot. There is a place, right on the edge of your ability, where you learn best and fastest. It's called the sweet spot. Ask yourself, if you tried your absolute hardest, what coudl you almost do? That's your spot!
Tip #22 - Pay attention immediately after you make a mistake. Develop the habit of attending to your errors right away. Don't wince, don't close your eyes; look straight at them and see what really happened, and ask yourself what you can do next to improve. Take mistakes seriously, but never personally.
Tip #26 - Slow it down. (Even slower than you think). Super-slow practice works like a magnifying glass: It lets us sense our errors more clearly, and thus fix them. As the saying goes, "It's not how fast you can do it. It's how slowly you can do it correctly."
Tip #32 - Make positive reaches. There's a moment just before every rep when you are faced with a choice: You can either focus your attention on the target (what you want to do) or you can focus on the possible mistake (what you want to avoid). Always focus on the positive move, not the negative one.
For all the times I was encouraged to practice, I never believed the deep reach of benefits until I read this little book.
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