Gregg Goodhart - The Learning Coach

09/20/2026

Perfect Practice is the course I've been working on for the past few years.

This is the method for practice built on how your brain really learns instead of whatever we were told about practicing, if anything at all.

It’s eight modules you go through at your own pace, on any instrument, using your own music — so you're improving the pieces you actually care about from the very first week. Each lesson teaches you the idea, then I sit in and coach you through a real practice session, step by step. Twenty minutes a day, four days a week.

Get it now for a special introductory price!

Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect Practice does.

Gregg Goodhart Courses

09/19/2026

Something new is coming!

I've been working on something new — something I think a lot of you have been waiting for.

I'm very excited, and it's nearly ready. The announcement is coming soon!

09/15/2026

The part that feels like struggle is the part doing the work.

A student spent months laboring through one passage. Fifteen minutes of practicing it a different way, and it came out faster, cleaner, and close to effortless. Most people back away from the hard stretch, which is exactly why most people stall out. Push into it the right way and the skill comes back stronger with every rep. This is how you get as good as you want at almost anything.

09/10/2026

What's something you've avoided trying because you knew you'd be bad at it first?

Here's the surprise: flow doesn't start once you're good. It starts in the struggle, the part where you're not great yet and you know it. Accept that, and it kicks in almost right away.

Try this now: pick one semi-hard problem, try a fix, and treat a miss as information for the next try. Keep going and the challenge pulls you in, time melts off the clock, and you get joyfully lost in the work.

09/07/2026

Two people put in the same practice hours. One progresses much faster. They aren't practicing the same way.

09/04/2026

When you practice, how often do you stop to actually hunt for a problem to solve?

Some call it the zone, or the muse. The researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi studied it for a career and named it flow. There's no mystery to it: find a problem, try a solution, find the next. Most practice skips that, play and pray, just running it and hoping. That cycle is what builds the mental model flow runs on.

Try this now: in your next practice session, find one specific thing to fix before you repeat it.

09/01/2026

Practice that feels worse is often practice that's working. That's the sound of weakness leaving the performance.

08/29/2026

What's a spot that fell apart in your last performance that you could be drilling this week?

Every "if I just had more time to practice this" moment from a performance is really a to-do list.

Try this now: name the three spots that got away from you last time, and start today with those.

08/26/2026

When was the last time you looked up from something and realized an hour had vanished?

You were probably in flow: so absorbed in working out one small thing, then the next, that time disappeared. You thought ten minutes had passed; it was an hour, and you got real work done. That state isn't luck. It's the highest, most enjoyable state of learning there is, and it can be built on purpose.

08/21/2026

Most of what we call talent is just focused practice you didn't see.

The people who 'have it' practice differently.

In this video I walk through why most people who think they lack talent actually don't, and what changes when you start treating skill as something you build through focused practice.