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Become A Learning Machine

When successful people from different fields offer the same advice, I listen. Often they have different vocabulary around an idea, but when you break it down you realize they’re talking about the same thing. Below is an example of …

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Does Experience Make You an Expert?

In Experience and validity of clinical judgment: The illusory correlation, Robyn Dawes explores the relationship between experience and accuracy. There is research about the relationship between experience and diagnostic and predictive …

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James March: The Ambiguities of Experience

How do our experiences help us learn? We’re often told that experience is the best way to learn. We might see this play out when someone gives us advice which we ignore, until experience teaches us the same lesson. *** In his book, The …

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