but supposing you do *all that*
odds are that the combination of your idiosyncracies in the way you learn/practice, and your idiosyncracies in how you explain your process, will only "click" with a few people who are just similar enough to you to grok it
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this is one reason I'm kind of laughing to myself listening to that book about Martin Erickson
guy had (and still has) a reputation for being a fantastic hypnotist
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I've been listening to an audiobook compilation of Milton Erickson's therapy sessions (link below)
coming around to some opinions I may compile when I emerge from the rabbit hole
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H.
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I've seen video of him -- he was charismatic as hell and definitely pulled off some fascinating stuff
he knew his shit
but the commentary in the book is written by a disciple -- excuse me, student -- who pulls the most inane explanations out of his ass
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I just don't trust those explanations much
I've been on my bullshit before about the whole "explanatory narrative" aspect of therapy being deeply suspicious to me
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example from my personal life: I think I did a pretty good job pulling myself (with help from friends!) out of the crab bucket and narrowly avoiding NEETdom
I think about compiling a "how I did it" writeup
but I don't know how I did it! hell, it could've all been hormonal!
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the best I could do would be to list everything I *tried,* the things I *think* had the most to do with it, and a bunch of advice on not dying or burning too many bridges while you bootstrap yourself into functionality
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this would be useful but also boring
and I'd keep coming back to boring shit like sleep, water, nutrition, fitness, and having good friends
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two things I take away from this line of thought:
first: if you try to follow expert guidance on improving your skills (or just improving your life as a whole), and you fail, it's worth trying lots of different advice from people who communicate differently, til it resonates
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and second:
for any craft humans haven't yet achieved proficiency in, via engineering, robots, or math
assume any advanced practitioner of said craft can only articulate, idk, 30% of "how they do it"
if they're lucky
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(and, as reminded me this morning, we can barely describe the "how" of many things we *have* figured out with robots and math)
(yet!)
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There’s a solution!
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I’ve talked a lot about cognitive task analysis, which is this fairly new (30 yo) technique to extract expertise from the heads of experts.
You know how pros can’t tell you how or what they’re doing? e.g. “It just feels right”
Yeah, CTA solves for that.
Some podcast clips. 
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Also related (which makes sense because CTA is basically a product of the military industrial complex):
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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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