Learn, Improve, Master Quotes

“Learning is challenging; it makes the mind work hard, and that isn’t always enjoyable. At different points, the learning process will be dull, frustrating, and even discouraging.”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“We can’t let them derail us. We’ll combat complacency by staying hungry, overconfidence by staying humble, and fear by staying focused on the process.”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“leave enough time so it feels effortful to remember but not so long that you forget most of it and have to relearn it.”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“Cramming is when we try to pack long hours of practice or study into a few sessions. Distributed practice, on the other hand, is when we space out our practice sessions over longer periods of time. Let’s say we have eight hours a week to practice. If we put them all in one day and don’t do anything else for the rest of the week, we are cramming. But if we distribute those eight hours into four two-hour practice sessions throughout the week, we are doing distributed practice. Research on learning has made it clear: distributed practice is a better strategy for long-lasting learning. It’s more effective to practice for one hour, five times a week, than to cram five hours of practice into a single day once a week. Similarly, practicing three days a week for a month is better than doing it for twelve days straight and not practicing again until the following month.”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“We know it in the form of quizzes, exams, drills, and flashcards. But testing can also be as simple as going through study material and self-questioning, writing the information down from memory, teaching it to someone else, or having our coach ask us questions. Essentially, anything that forces us to recall from memory is a form of practice retrieval.”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“Through repetition (aka rote learning), we can eventually drill almost anything into our memory. But rote learning is inefficient compared to other principles for creating new memories—like association, attention, and emotion. Using repetition to memorize is like taking a wheel, laying it on its side, and then pushing it. We’ll make it move and get it where we want it to go, but it’s not the best way to do it.”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“Leonardo da Vinci observed, “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” Think”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“A guideline to keep in mind is to study from general concepts to specifics, from simple processes to complex ones, from concrete information to abstraction, and from principles to techniques and strategies.”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“Friedrich Nietzsche, “There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it.”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“The same principle applies to all other learning. We start by making individual associations between concepts and behavior and then group them to form more complex, larger chunks.”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“In The Little Book of Talent, Daniel Coyle makes a case for thinking in images and using analogies:”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, one”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It

“This book is about that process: how to learn, improve, and master any skill.”
― Nick Velasquez, Learn, Improve, Master: How to Develop Any Skill and Excel at It