The proficient performer, immersed in the world of skillful activity, sees what needs to be done, but decides how to do it. The expert not only sees what needs to be achieved;
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What must be done, simply is done. As Aristotle says, the expert ‘straightway’ does ‘the appropriate thing, at the appropriate time, in the appropriate way’.
— Peripheral Vision: Expertise in Real World Contexts
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→ ~ experts do not decide between options, they see only one
- in general this idea agrees with a million other ideas about expertise, but here it's specifically in the context of the 5-stages model
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does the gap between proficiency and expertise (in the 5 stage model) map to the whole stuff with silent period and ~ free active vocab learning stagnates? Proficiency here meaning being good at input, but failing at (intuitive) output?
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this is also very much gliding; maybe this is what ~ you don't learn by gliding is about: you avoid the emotional intensity of stage 3 and stage 4 by basking in your expert performance in a very limited area, thus ofc developing a plateau
- meta-note: this is all very high-level and makes a suspicious level of satisfying "sense". make sure to get actionable hypotheses from this...