#118 - Gregg Goodhart: The Learning Coach

In the 118th episode of The Strength Connection Podcast, Mike and our special guest, a Learning Coach, Gregg Goodhart, will talk about how talent is overrated, how to actually learn how to learn better, deliberate practice, contextual interference, and more.

Join us in this insightful and captivating talk! 

In this chapter, you will discover:

(1:00) Introducing our special guest a Learning Coach, Gregg Goodhart @gregggoodhart_learningcoach

(1:30) “How successful we want to be at anything we wanna do in life is determined almost entirely by how well we learn to do that thing.” - Gregg Goodhart @gregggoodhart_learningcoach

(2:20) Gregg’s origin story

(2:25) Love for music

(3:00) Teaching music at a private school

(3:35) Teaching how to “getting started”

(4:20) Contextual interference

(5:00) Teaching how to learn

(5:30) A 5 year experiment

(6:00) The talent mystery

(6:25) “Talent is just some magical pixie dust written on a unicorn that people expect to be dropped on them somehow.” - Gregg Goodhart @gregggoodhart_learningcoach

(7:15) The things that worked

(8:10) Talent is overrated by Geoff Colvin Twitter: @geoffcolvin

https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Overrated-Separates-World-Class-Performers/dp/1591842948 

(8:45) Starting a research

(9:50) The candy store analogy

(10:50) Deliberate practice

(10:55) “The process of deliberate practice creates flow, flow creates passion.” - Gregg Goodhart @gregggoodhart_learningcoach

(12:25) The advantage of seeing progress

(15:35) Growth mindset, fixed mindset

(15:50) Mindset by Carol Dweck

https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322 

(16:20) “Mistakes are simply pieces of information. Why do they make you upset?” - Gregg Goodhart @gregggoodhart_learningcoach

(17:55) Know what's wrong!

(19:15) Happy F’s

(21:00) “You get your dopamine from continuous progress rather than just the result of it.” - Michael Kurkowski @mike_strength_connection

(21:15) It hurts!

(24:40) A mindset study

(26:30) Gregg about learning styles

(29:10) Shout out to Paul Kirschner Twitter: @P_A_Kirschner

(29:30) More about contextual interference

(32:00) More about deliberate practice

(35:05) How to teach something?

(35: 25) Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown

https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learning/dp/0674729013 

(36:10) Scouting the defense analogy

(37:10) Shout out to Peyton Manning @peytonmanning

(38:35) How to teach the reflected piece?

(40:30) Mental model

(41:40) The football watching analogy

(42:35) The artist’s curse

(42:50) Shout out to John Madden

(44:25) Shout out to Anthony Kiedis

(45:30) The fatal flaw

(51:40) Shout out to Tony Robbins @tonyrobbins

(51:40) Shout out to Jack Canfield @jackcanfield_official

(53:20) About Gregg’s new book

(54:10) Where to find Gregg Goodhart? @gregggoodhart_learningcoach

https://gregggoodhart.com/