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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
I know this is obvious, but I think it bears repeating: the higher up you go in some skill tree, the smaller the improvements become. Which leads to some interesting observations: 1) To a novice, an expert giving feedback to the merely good will seem like nitpicking.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
2) You know how in chess and tennis, people say that great players make less mistakes than good players? This is an instance of that. 3) You should expect to have to level up to notice ever smaller details and tweaks as you progress.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
4) Which in turn means that as you get better, refining technique can be vastly more boring than the early skill jumps of the novice-intermediate.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
But Buchard is able to do her throw to everyone from the same grip, regardless of their handedness. How? The answer: she forces same side players into an opposite stance, and in that tiny window when the stance switches, she attacks. Me: wtf?!
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
Competition coach: it’s obvious when you know what to look for. Me: wtf? Which makes me wonder what the equivalent thing is in other skill domains like programming or marketing. What tiny tweaks am I missing?
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
Important counter point:
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Agustin Lebron
@AgustinLebron3
Replying to @ejames_c
I've come around to the idea that: Taking insights from bounded domains with known and fixed rules (i.e. games and sports) and transporting them to unbounded domains (real world problems) often gives bad results.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
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@ihodes
Things like “yeah you need to turn your wrist a wee bit more here” (in the tiny window of a few seconds between say two steps in a technique) and then suddenly the throw feels completely different.
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