Failure is not a verdict; making mistakes is the price of the ticket.

You have to be willing to stop and fix. Deep practice requires a willingness to do what many of us find uncomfortable: to admit to our errors, and focus on them.

Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.

Failure is not a verdict; making mistakes is the price of the ticket.

The solution is to ignore the bad habit and put your energy toward building a new habit that will override the old one.