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“Struggle is not optional, it’s neurologically required. In order to get your skill circuit to fire optimally, you must by definition fire the circuit sub optimally. You must make mistakes, and pay attention to those mistakes… you must slowly teach your circuit. You must also keep firing that circuit, i.e. practicing, in order to keep myelin functioning properly, after all, myelin is living tissue.” Pg 44, The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. by Daniel Coyle Notes

“Every human movement, thought, or feeling is a precisely timed electrical signal traveling through a chain of neurons—a circuit of nerve fibers. Myelin is the insulation that wraps these nerve fibers and increases signal strength, speed and accuracy. The more we fire a particular circuit, the more myelin optimizes that circuit, and the stronger, faster, and more fluent our movements and thoughts become.” Pg 32, The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. by Daniel Coyle Notes

“Many people will study hard trying to understand all that information at once, not realizing that it probably wouldn’t make them play any better. Knowledge is not meant to be gathered all at once.” Pg 212, The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music by Victor L. Wooten

On the record "Legacy" David Holt speaks with Doc Watson and asks about his and his father's harmonica playing. In the cut titled "Dad Was a Harmonica Player" (available at the iTunes store) Doc talks plays examples of both puckering and tongue blocking as well as plays position examples. Pretty cool stuff.