When striving to be “unconscious” serves you
Well, there are ultimately four stages to learning any new skill or habit. 1.Unconscious incompetence—when you’re doing something wrong and you don’t know you’re doing it wrong 2.Conscious incompetence—when you’re doing something wrong and you know you’re doing it wrong 3.Conscious competence—when you’re doing something right but you have to consci
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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.
Mark A. McDaniel • Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
If you can focus hard on something for at least a few hours per day for several years, you will get good at it. The main obstacle to doing so is being a poorly-designed meat machine, beset by anxiety, doubt, frustration, depression, arrogance etc. So I've come to believe that managing those emotions is the main component of being good at
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