I don’t have to tell you about the importance of practice. That’s obvious. What’s not so obvious is why sometimes practice makes you better and sometimes it doesn’t. Well, today I came across an insightful article Learning to Learn by Elizabeth Ligon Bjork, a psychology professor at UCLA. Bjork shares a fundamental truth about practice […]
When the talking heads of popular culture share advice about personal growth, it almost always starts with learning from failure. There is so much to say about picking yourself up after a loss and bouncing back, we often forget about the virtue of learning from success. In fact, the art of learning from winning is […]
When a beginner or average athlete stops getting better, a coach almost always knows why. There is so much room for growth in so many different areas that all the coach must do is pick one and zoom in that athlete’s focus. On the other hand, when a good athlete is pushing to be elite, […]