Get Better at Anything

Examples alone are not always enough. Research finds that breaking apart worked examples into subgoals can help illustrate the reasoning behind a problem-solving procedure, and that encouraging students to engage in self-explanations of examples can enhance understanding.

Practice plays a number of important roles in learning.

When we’re able to learn from the example of other people, practice extensively ourselves, and get reliable feedback, rapid progress results. Yet, when one or all of these factors are inhibited, improvement often becomes impossible.

Strategy #4: Know When (and When Not) to Trust Your Gut Perhaps the most valuable lesson of the research on intuition is to delineate the situations where it is likely to succeed, and those places where it is likely to be overconfident. Intuition works best when discernible cues reliably predict events, and performers have the ability to learn

Introduce Complexity Slowly

better strategy is to space your reviews out, a little bit each day, so that the same amount of time has a greater impact.

Knowledge Becomes Invisible with Experience. Finally,

“The secret of our species’ success lies not in our raw, innate intelligence or in any specialized mental abilities,” writes Harvard anthropologist Joseph Henrich. Instead, he argues it’s the ability to learn easily from the innovations of others that makes us uniquely capable as a species.

Put Craft Before Creativity