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- > Learning takes way longer than you expect, but its scope is often further reaching
- > Many players confuse hitting balls with practice.
- > top skaters fall more often during their training sessions
- ~ 24-7 access enables expertise building
- ~ 90% of skill variation can be predicted by answers about practice planning
- ~ chess masters store about 20k chunks, comparable to avg. English speaker's vocab
- ~ chess performance does not go down much in blitz
- ~ expertise cannot be trained in the classroom
- ~ experts don't compare options, they think of the right way and do it
- ~ most people stop practice once a skill is automated and 'good enough'
- ~ motor skills cannot be separated from perceptual learning
- ~ pick a specific subtask that you can do unly unreliably, design a 45-90m session to get to 95%
- ~ skill execution drops when performer switches to conscious, declarative thinking
- ~ spend time with people who are great at the thing you want to be great at
- ~ viscerally plan task execution beforehand
- ~ you want noiseless feedback
- ⁓ students misapplying grammar they just "learned" is a similar effect to athletes being unable to switch to effectively use "manual mode"
- ⁓ to learn a language, commit to get 1000 hours of input within a time span
- ⁓ you want a pressure cooker