- authors: Ericsson and Robert Pool
❐ Peak - Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
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- > Generally the solution is not “try harder” but rather “try differently.”
- ~ 10k hours is just the amount of practice your competition has put in
- ~ DP is developing the relevant mental representations
- ~ IQ is an initial advantage in skill acquisition which disappears quickly and completely
- ~ Korean Go masters have an avg. IQ of 93
- ~ acknowledge that practice must look different for a knowledge worker than for a pianist
- ~ amateurs don't understand just how much better expert's mental representations are
- ~ doctors don't have more time, so convert normal work into learning experience
- ~ doctors don't improve with experience, even though they try all the time
- ~ doing the same thing over and over does not lead to improvement but stagnation and decline
- ~ don't bother with a curriculum, just simulate the real thing closely without serious consequences
- ~ dp approach﹕ split lesson into a series of ascending steps
- ~ dp means modifying existing skills
- ~ experts will do many things differently from their peers, not all of them relevant
- ~ most people stop practice once a skill is automated and 'good enough'
- ~ plateau after initial speedy learning is normal, and no insurmountable wall
- ~ prioritize doing over knowing
- ~ self-monitoring is required for expertise
- ~ there are cultures where everyone is expected to sing, is taught to sing, and can sing
- ~ to do DP, you need to know what "good" is
- ~ to improve, go beyond business-as-usual
- ~ to learn, break homeostasis
- ~ you can't train memory, you can train your memory for a specific category of entities
- ⁓ DP may not allow learning transfer
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