Value Process Before Results
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 …
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Josh Waitzkin on Mastering the Fundamentals
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 …
The Velocity of Skill Development: Quickly Closing the Gap
We are remarkably inefficient at skill development. Understanding the nuances of how repetitions, situations, and feedback interconnect offers us a few small changes that lead to remarkable …
The Art of Learning
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 depth beats breadth
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 …
The challenge with history
There is a lot of wisdom in this: The challenge with history, however, is that it’s a very fickle teacher. Which is a lot of the key to understanding history is what the circumstances were. And …
Stretching yourself to learn new things
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 …
Michael Mauboussin: Two Tips to Improve The Quality of Your Decisions
Michael Mauboussin, chief investment strategist at Legg Mason and our first interview on the podcast, offers two simple techniques to improve the quality of your decision making: a decision journal …
A Simple Tool to Help You Learn Better
Learning something new shouldn’t be easy. If it feels effortless, you’re probably not actually learning anything. In order to get better, you have to reach. It needs to be a little bit difficult. From …
What is Deliberate Practice?
Deliberate practice is a method for improving your performance at anything, based on constant feedback and working at the edge of your abilities. Elite people in every field use it to build up their …
An Algorithm for Solving Problems
“He (Richard Feynman) was always searching for patterns, for connections, for a new way of looking at something, but I suspect his motivation was not so much to understand the world as it was to …
The Learning Paradox: Why Struggling to Learn is a Good Thing
The more you struggle to master new information, the better you’ll understand and apply it later. Annie Murphy Paul explores in Time: The learning paradox is at the heart of “productive …
Feynman Technique: The Ultimate Guide to Learning Anything Faster
The Feynman Technique is the most effective method to unlock your potential, develop deep understanding, and quickly learn any subject. Richard Feynman was not only a Nobel laureate in Physics but …
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 …
What Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Practice activities are worthless without useful feedback about the results. Here is a wonderful excerpt from Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else: The …