I got about ~40% faster solving sudoku after casually watching an hour of YouTube (turns out sudoku YouTube is a thing) and now I’m wondering how many other things in life are shaped like this.
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I'm wondering in particular how much routine cognitive work, like mortgage underwriting or radiology diagnosis or what have you, is "Watch an expert narrate this process and show you a few things from their toolkit which you'll apply 15 times a day for forever" improvable.
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Yes I would. People underestimate how hard it is to come up with techniques on your own, versus implementing the technique once you hear it. Most people who don't read topical books end up missing stuff like that
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People on Youtube who get high hits often are good performers, too... not in the sense that they're Good At The Thing, but they're very expressive when they do it, so they visibly signal all the steps they're going through even when they're not trying to deliberately "teach".
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I had a bad back for > 4 months. Physio, Rolfing, painkillers. Nothing really worked, chewing 1600mg of ibuprofen to get through the day. In desperation I looked on YouTube for tips. Top hit was a 2 minute stretch. Instant relief. Information is power.
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Hah, share the vid? Someone close to me has chronic back pain.
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8 year old got a 3 minute YouTube lesson on shoulder and wrist position and movements on throwing a football in a perfect spiral, is now dead on accurate. I had never thrown one before watching the video and he threw one first.
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This holds for most strategy games 8yo plays as well — 0ad, Stellaris, there are people streaming and he can watch, pick up, realize, and operationalize very quickly.
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Scrabble. Pre-YouTube era, just casually watching a competitive player and memorizing a list of 2 letter words would be enough to let you win in 99% of amateur games.
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Chess is the same. Give an hour and I can teach you how to beat literally anyone who doesn’t know any theory. Regardless of how smart they are. And I’m talking actual, applicable principles, not cute checkmates for clever kids
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Got any resources you can point me towards? I’ve been watching lots of Agadmator, and playing 5 games/day, but my rating growth has plateaued around 1400-1500. Or do you mean more basic theory principles like control the centre, claim open files, pins & forks etc
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