Tony Schwartz is President and CEO of the Energy Project. Schwartz consults with companies to assist them in their performance. He has also authored several books and is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review.
Schwartz had some great things to say about being excellent, including six keys. So many of this can be translated to teachers and coaches, with some modifications.
"We've found, in our work with executives at dozens of organizations, that it's possible to build any given skill or capacity in the same systematic way we do a muscle: push past your comfort zone, and then rest."
"Anders Ericsson, arguably the world's leading researcher in high performance...has been making the case that it's not inherited talent which determines how good we become at something, but rather how hard we're willing to work - something he calls "deliberate practice."
Six Keys to Achieving Excellence:
1. Pursue what you love.
2. Do the hardest work first.
3. Practice intensely, without interruption for short periods of no longer than 90 minutes and then take a break.
4. Seek expert feedback, in intermittent doses.
5. Take regular renewal breaks.
6. Ritualize practice. - Build specific inviolable times at which you do them, so that over time you do them without having to squander energy thinking about them.
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