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The Focused Sprint Approach: Rapid Skill Acquisition for Breaking Through Plateaus | Ex... - 0 views
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First, you have to admit that whatever you’re currently doing isn’t working.
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Next, you need shake up your learning methods.
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Now, here’s where the sprint part comes in. Commit to putting in at least 2x to 3x the effort you’ve been putting in for a focused period of time.
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Beyond SATs, Finding Success in Numbers - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Guitar Zero: A Neuroscientist Debunks the Myth of "Music Instinct" | Brain Pickings - 0 views
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If critical periods aren’t quite so firm as people once believed, a world of possibility emerges for the many adults who harbor secret dreams — whether to learn a language, to become a pastry chef, or to pilot a small plane. And quests like these, no matter how quixotic they may seem, and whether they succeed in the end or not, could bring unanticipated benefits, not just for their ultimate goals but of the journey itself. Exercising our brains helps maintain them, by preserving plasticity (the capacity of the nervous system to learn new thing), warding off degeneration, and literally keeping the blood flowing. Beyond the potential benefits for our brains, there are benefits for our emotional well-being, too. There may be no better way to achieve lasting happiness — as opposed to mere fleeting pleasure — than pursuing a goal that helps us broaden our horizons.”
Annie Murphy Paul: The Myth of 'Practice Makes Perfect' | TIME Ideas | TIME.com - 0 views
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Studies show that practice aimed at remedying weaknesses is a better predictor of expertise than raw number of hours; playing for fun and repeating what you already know is not necessarily the same as efficiently reaching a new level.
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“Deliberate practice,” Ericsson declares sternly, “requires effort and is not inherently enjoyable.”
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“the most notable differences between the practice sessions of the top-ranked pianists and the remaining participants,” Duke and his coauthors wrote, “are related to their handling of errors.”
Vigor not Rigor « Cooperative Catalyst - 0 views
Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Closing Your Interests Opens More Interesting Op... - 0 views
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We’ve created this fantasy world where everyone is just 30 days of courage boosting exercises and life hacks away from living an amazing life.
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it’s clear that you’re not likely to encounter real interesting opportunities in your life until after you’re really good at something.
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If you avoid focus because you want to keep your options open, you’re likely accomplishing the opposite. Getting good is a prerequisite to encountering options worth pursuing.
Clifford Nass on Tweenage Girls and Multitasking - YouTube - 0 views
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Tweenage girls who spend endless hours watching videos and media multitasking with digital devices tend to be less successful with social and emotional development, according Stanford researchers, including Clifford Nass, professor of communication. But these unwanted effects might be warded off with something as simple as face-to-face conversations with other people. Here Nass talks about the research, which included a survey asking 3,461 girls, ages 8 to 12, about their electronic diversions and their social and emotional lives. "The results were upsetting, disturbing, scary," Nass said.
Enjoying the process of Learning - MindsetWorks - 0 views
One Percent Education - NYTimes.com - 2 views
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The emphasis on personal achievement has done more than turn the admissions process into a race to rack up résumé points; more important, to the extent that elite colleges set the pace, it is turning the educational culture into one that stresses individual perfection instead of one that stresses social improvement.
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At the turn of the last century, the influential philosopher John Dewey saw education as a democratizing force not just in its social consequences but in its very process. Dewey believed that education and life were inextricably bound, that they informed each other. Education wasn’t just something you did in a classroom to earn grades. It was something you lived.
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There is a big difference between a culture that encourages engagement with the world and one that encourages developing one’s own superiority.
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