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Expertise is ‘Just’ Pattern Matching
Why Tacit Knowledge Is More Important Than Deliberate Practice - Commonplace - The Commoncog Blog
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Keely Adler and added
- Maintaining focus becomes easier because ideas become less interesting. “Experts literally experience a different world within their specialism,” Tom Morgan pointed out . Experts perceive more layers and details, they see patterns and nuances invisible to others. Their experience of the same domain is richer, more interesting, and filled with an in... See more
from Maslow's Lighthouse: Strive for Mastery, Not Money (the money will follow)
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Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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- “Not enough is said about the power of thinking about one topic for a long period of time.
If you revisit a topic continually for a few years, most problems (and many solutions) will occur to you at some point.
Expertise can be the gradual accumulation of many modest insights.”from 3-2-1: On progress, friendship, and how to improve your writing
Isaac Feldman added
Expertise is formed in any area by repeated cycles of learners practicing skills until they are nearly automatic, then having those skills fail in ways that cause the learners to have to think again and learn anew. Then they practice this new skill set to an automatic level of mastery only to see it, too, eventually be challenged.
from Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter) by Julie Dirksen
- people value intelligence and cleverness without similarly valuing on-the-ground knowledge or intellectual rigor. People often discuss the standard trendy topics (some recent ones I've observed at multiple parties are how to build a competitor to Google search and how to solve the problem of high transit construction costs) and explain why pe... See more
from Cocktail party ideas by Dan Luu
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