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Cedric Chin
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A whole bunch of new folk seem to have found my thread on Cognitive Flexibility Theory, which talks about learning in real world, ‘ill-structured’ domains. But why is it some people can achieve mastery from experience, while others cannot? Related:
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Cedric Chin
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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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The gist of it is really this:
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12/ With CTT, this makes more sense. CTT tells us you need to destroy old mental models to progress. i.e. you should hold on to old mental models loosely. It ALSO implies that those who cannot hold their mental models loosely will plateau at an intermediate skill level forever.
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