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Cultivating a growth mindset and embracing challenges
Developing adaptive thinking and problem-solving skills
Effective learning frameworks and approaches
Implementing The Loop
A loop like this can be applied to many different skills and subjects:
- Programming : See a particular command, data structure or design pattern; implement it yourself; then check to see that it works properly.
- Languages : See vocabulary, phrases and grammar; test it out in a conversation, and check whether you are properly understood.
- History : Read a book, write a passage explaining the main points, and check back to see what you’ve missed.
- Business : Learn a new management technique, implement it within your company, and see how it performs.
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2. Do: The Need For Retrieval
Of course, if watching alone led to skill, we wouldn’t need to practice at all. We could watch cooking shows and instantly become chefs or see a football (soccer) match and pick up dribbling skills. Acquiring patterns isn’t enough—the knowledge needs to become an automatic skill in order to be us...
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3. Feedback: Check Your Work
Finally, you need to get feedback on your practice. If the problem is something with a straightforward, unique answer, seeing the correct solution is enough. For skills with gradations of performance or more subjective measures of success, a teacher, tutor or coach can give you the feedback you n...
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The Foundation For Effective Learning Is Practice
You get good at things by doing them. Yet within this simple observation is a maze of complexity. How should you practice to get the most improvement with the least time and effort?
Good practice has three components:
- See . Look for an example of how to solve a p...
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1. See: The Power Of Examples
People don’t solve problems by building general-purpose problem-solving skills. Instead, decades of research shows that experts in domains as diverse as chess, programming, and medical reasoning get good by acquiring tons of specific patterns of knowledge.
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