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Understanding the importance of decision-making
Identifying biases that affect decision-making
Analyzing the potential outcomes of a decision
Myelin during practice
Our brains have two kinds of neural tissue:
- Grey matter processes information in the brain
- White matter is mostly fatty tissue and nerve fibres.
For our bodies to move, information needs to travel from the grey matter down the spinal cord through a chain of nerve fibres (axons) to our muscles. The axons in the white matter are wrapped with myelin. This myelin covering seems to change with practice. Added layers insulate the axons, eventually becoming a superhighway for information connecting your brain to your muscles.
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Effective practice
Mastery is not just about the hours of practice. It's also the quality and effectiveness of that practice that plays a role.
Effective practice is
- consistent
- intensely focused
- targets content or weaknesses
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Mastering a skill
Mastering any physical skill, such as playing an instrument or throwing a baseball, takes practice.
Practice is repeating an action with the goal of improvement.
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How to get the most out of our practice time
- Focus on the task at hand.
- Minimise distraction. Turn off the TV and put your cellphone out of reach. Studies show that the interference of laptops and smartphones caused students to stay on task for only six minutes at a time.
- Start ...
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