Skill Stagnation 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.

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.

I surfed until I was 18, and being the athlete that I am, I got really frustrated with how I wasn't really getting any better.

I felt like I plateaued at playing drums, like I wasn't getting any better. I bought an electric pair of drums, sold my drum set, and got introduced to making beats.

There's things I know I'm good at, and those things interest me less and less. I learn a lot more from doing it wrong than I do from doing it right.

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.

The funny thing about the golf swing is that you try to alter it and end up with the same faults as you've had all your life.

Something happened to me and I became really successful at something at a young age, and that stunts you in every other aspect of your life because you feel like that's what you're good at and so that's what you need to stay in.

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.