26 Quotes by Matthew Syed

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

It is partly because we are so willing to blame others for their mistakes that we are so keen to conceal our own. We.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.’3.

Success is not just dependent on before-the-event reasoning, it is also about after-the-trigger adaptation.

Failure is rich in learning opportunities for a simple reason: in many of its guises, it represents a violation of expectation.6 It is showing us that the world is in some sense different from the way we imagined it to be.

The reason is not difficult to see: if we drop out when we hit problems, progress is scuppered, no matter how talented we are. If we interpret difficulties as indictments of who we are, rather than as pathways to progress, we will run a mile from failure. Grit, then, is strongly related to the Growth Mindset; it is about the way we conceptualise success and failure.

It is only by starting at an unusually young age and by practicing with such ferocious devotion that it is possible to accumulate ten thousand hours while still in adolescence. Far from being an exception to the ten-thousand-hour rule, Mozart is a shining testament to it.

Later doesn’t always come to everybody.

If you don’t know what you are doing wrong, you can never know what you are doing right.