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Mastery Learning
Mastery is almost never the result of mere talent. It is, rather, the blending of The Gift with a certain quality of sustained and intensive effort—a quality of effort that has now come to be called “deliberate practice.”
from The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by Stephen Cope
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People who learn to extract the key ideas from new material and organize them into a mental model and connect that model to prior knowledge show an advantage in learning complex mastery. A mental model is a mental representation of some external reality.
from Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Mark A. McDaniel