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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
US Military, Naturalistic Decision Making researchers: "in order to accelerate expertise, we need to design our training programs to destroy existing mental models" Good businesspeople: "how can we distill wisdom from the air?" Everyone else: "u need 2 do DeLiBeRaTe PrAcTiCe!"
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
1/ Let's talk a little about how people learn in the real world. No, I'm not going to talk about classroom instruction, or pedagogical development, or enrolling in a cohort based course. None of that. Just a simple question: how do people ACTUALLY learn from doing?
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
Clarification on the 'distill wisdom from the air' bit — that's from Robert Kuok's biography, in reference to the way uneducated Chinese businessmen learn. Mostly by reflecting on experiences and observing widely.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
There was a meme sometime back on “what is the deliberate practice of your domain?” With this theory of learning, we can say that the question is ill-formed, because DP can only be done in domains with clear pedagogical development, with a coach who has that pedagogy.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
Instead, in most real world domains we care about — messy domains like business and investment and careers — the right question to ask is: how do we get better at trial and error? in other words, what we need is a learning theory for how people do better trial and error!
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
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Oh, and: “I actively search for better methods to double check my mental models, because I know the better I get at this game, the better able I become to deceive myself.”
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