Sublime

intelligence is not one-dimensional,

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.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

Some of the most powerful thinking in the area of strategic intelligence has come from David Perkins.14 His work is particularly helpful in two crucial areas: defining what strategic (or reflective) intelligence actually is, and seeking to understand the mechanisms of ‘transfer’ that is, how something that had been learned in one context becomes av

My basic approach to understanding prodigies is the same as it is for understanding any expert performer. I ask two simple questions: What is the exact nature of the ability? and, What sorts of training made it possible? In thirty years of looking, I have never found an ability that could not be explained by answering these two questions.

In many settings, your judgment and learning are calibrated by working alongside a more experienced partner: airline first officers with captains, rookies with seasoned cops, residents with experienced surgeons.