No Commoncog posts for the past 2 weeks because I'm working on Commoncog's Cognitive Flexibility Theory-driven business case library.
I'm quite excited about this. If CFT really works as advertised, this will be a pretty cool way you can accelerate your business expertise.
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One of the tricky things about CFT is that it demands cases be complex, and embedded with many different concepts.
The problem is that people expect clean cases, written to make a specific point.
(Link to the theory):
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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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Another challenge: if cases are embedded with multiple concepts, you can cross link across different concepts and businesses. But then cases might not be easy to read, and the learning experience might be too fractal.
We don't yet know how to solve for this.
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In the original CFT research, the researchers recommend a learning experience where you introduce a concept, and then quickly introduce many different cases to help them internalise that concepts look very different in practice!
There's some of that here, but ...
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There’s one other source (the summary chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Expertise) which I can’t post online. But here’s the original paper:
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2/ The theory I'm going to talk about is Cognitive Flexibility Theory, originally published by Spiro, Coulson, Feltovich and Anderson in a 1988 paper.
The theory has 30 years of ACTUAL system implementations. We're going to talk about those in a sec.
researchgate.net/publication/27
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The other resource is Accelerated Expertise, which I snapshot here:
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So I’m just starting on Accelerated Expertise and my god is this a heavy lift.
I’m going to leave these book screenshots here and see if anyone picks up on the bombshell implications.
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