Wednesday, July 29, 2026

WEDNESDAY — PERSPECTIVE & PRACTICE

“Put bluntly, you need to make practice feel hard again.”

— Dr. Christian Jarrett, Cognitive Neuroscientist

Your best skills now run in the background: cached, automated, effortless. That fluency feels like mastery, but it’s actually the ceiling, because a brain that finds the work easy quietly stops updating the code. Anders Ericsson spent a career arguing the same point from the other direction: it was never the ten thousand hours, it was the quality of what happened inside them. To learn more, Check out the article This is the secret to going from good to great at any skill, according to science.

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Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad