Skill Plateau Quotes

The 'OK Plateau' is that place we all get to where we just stop getting better at something. Take typing, for example. You might type and type and type all day long, but once you reach a certain level, you just don't get appreciably faster. That's because it's become automatic. You've moved it to the back of your mind's filing cabinet.

When people are training to become singers, they all have moments when they hit a wall.

When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.

I practice on the acoustic guitar a little bit, but I think I have reached the peak of my talent.

I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.

It's easy to reach a certain level with chess, but it's very hard to reach the next level.

Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.

I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable.