85 Quotes by Daniel Coyle

I have always maintained that excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work. – Charles Darwin.

What ignited the progress wasn’t any innate skill or gene. It was a small, ephemeral, yet powerful idea: a vision of their ideal future selves, a vision that oriented, energized, and accelerated progress, and that originated in the outside world.

We focus on what we can see – individual skills. But individual skills are not what matters. What matters is the interaction.

Building habits of group vulnerability is like building a muscle. It takes time, repetition, and the willingness to feel pain in order to achieve gains.

In other words, a small thank-you caused people to behave far more generously to a completely different person. This is because thank-yous aren’t only expressions of gratitude; they’re crucial belonging cues that generate a contagious sense of safety, connection, and motivation.

Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways – operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes – makes you smarter. Or.

As Dave Cooper says, I screwed that up are the most important words any leader can say.

We’re prewired to imitate,” Anders Ericsson says. “When you put yourself in the same situation as an outstanding person and attack a task that they took on, it has a big effect on your skill.

Even the most creative skills – especially the most creative skills – require long periods of clumsiness.