Why Tacit Knowledge Is More Important Than Deliberate Practice - Commonplace - The Commoncog Blog

Tacit knowledge is knowledge that cannot be captured through words alone .

Think about riding a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is impossible to teach through descriptions. Sure, you can try to explain what it is you’re doing when you’re cycling, but this isn’t going to be of much help when you’re teaching a kid and they fall into the drain while you’re t... See more

Critchlow: The future of knowledge work is increasingly going to rely on tacit knowledge. Whether it’s knowing how to navigate the organization or how to build a great marketing campaign – this is the knowledge that will determine career success. It turns out that the most effective way to acquire tacit knowledge is not through “professional develo... See more

Tacit knowledge is knowledge that can’t properly be transmitted via verbal or written instruction, like the ability to create great art or assess a startup. This tacit knowledge is a form of intellectual dark matter, pervading society in a million ways, some of them trivial, some of them vital. Examples include woodworking, metalworking, housekeepi... See more

Professor K. Anders Ericsson explains in his 2016 deliberate practice book that human expertise results from the development of effective mental representations of whatever field you wish to specialize in. Although this view of expertise as tacit knowledge is relatively well-known, it seems uncontroversial. The art of practice, however, may simply ... See more

One of the most challenging ideas I have encountered. The idea is to recognize a situation in a developing environment. This is done by translating that recognition into a set of cues, plausible goals, and expectations, along with a set of trained actions. If you are familiar with the situation, you construct variations of intended actions on the f... See more

Polanyi observed that there are many tasks we can easily perform as humans that we can’t fully explain. For example, driving a car or recognizing a face. We can try to describe how we do these things, but our explanations always fall far short. That’s because we are relying on tacit knowledge, which is impossible to describe in exact detail. We pos

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