Brain Food: A Series of Plateaus

Here’s how to become an expert at anything:

Concepts First: Learning the fundamental principles instead of just the immediate behaviors is the difference between being a cook and being a chef.

It Needs To Be Difficult: If you’re doing it right, you don’t feel like an expert; you feel like a person who has been mildly electrocuted by their own ambitio... See more

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 more important than the quantity of what is learned .... It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery o

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