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Cedric Chin
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A thread on Cognitive Flexibility Theory, which comes from the study of accelerating medical expertise:
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1/ Let's talk about how note taking can help you accelerate expertise. Yes, I know how that sounds like. No, this isn't hype. There's some solid cognitive science here, and it has FASCINATING things to say about the nature of learning in messy, real world domains.
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Cedric Chin
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A thread on Cognitive Transformation Theory, which explains why some people can become good through trial and error, while others stagnate (spoiler: experts can introspect better on their experiences):
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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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Cedric Chin
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Sorry, I got the earlier thread on Accelerated Expertise wrong, see here instead:
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1/ Let's talk about accelerating expertise. You want to get good. You want to get good fast. How do you do this? In 2008 and 2009 the US Department of Defence convened two meetings on this very topic. Here's what they found. (Hint: the answer is NOT deliberate practice).
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Cedric Chin
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What do all of these resources have in common? The answer: they’re drawn from the Naturalistic Decision Making branch of applied psychology. NDM does a lot of work for the military and healthcare. The researchers overlap quite a bit with human factors and resilience engineering.
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Cedric Chin
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But really the general recommendation to look at training systems or training research that’s been funded by the military is probably a good heuristic.
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