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The Super Mario Effect
It describes the process of focusing on the princess and not the pits, to stick with a task and learn more.
The focus is about beating the game, not about how dumb you might look. And as a direct result of that attitude—of learning from but not being focused on the failures—we got really good and we learned a ton in a really short amount of time.
When you frame a challenge or a learning process in this way, you actually want to do it. It feels natural to ignore the failures and try again.
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“The trick to learning more and having more success is finding the right way to frame the learning process.”
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
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