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We’re taught single loop learning from the time we are in grade school, but there’s a better way. Double loop learning is the quickest and most efficient way to learn anything that you …
A brilliant passage from Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood on talent. There just happen to be people like that. They’re blessed with this marvelous talent, but they can’t make the effort to …
More insight from The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance: The issue is fundamental to the pursuit of excellence in all fields. If a young basketball player is taught that winning …
Some excerpts from Josh Waitzkin’s The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance. The best way to launch into the learning process is by breaking down what you are learning into …
Josh Waitzkin has mastered the game of Chess — winning his first National Championship at the age of nine — and the physical challenge of martial arts, becoming a World Champion of Tai Chi Chuan. One …
When it comes to learning something new, depth beats breadth. In both fields, players tend to get attached to fancy techniques and fail to recognize that subtle internalization and refinement is much …
Carol Dweck, Daniel Coyle, and Noel Tichy all point out that you need to stretch to learn new things. First, this from Carol Dweck … My colleagues and I have conducted interventions with …