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Understanding the importance of decision-making
Identifying biases that affect decision-making
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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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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 ...
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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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Effective practice
It's consistent, intensely focused, and targets content or weaknesses that lie at the edge of one’s current abilities.
Mastering any skill takes practice
Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement. It helps us perform with more ease, speed, and confidence.
Mastering any physical skill takes practice. And it isn’t simply about the number of hours of practice. It’s also about the quality and effectiveness of...
Purposeful practice
“Purposeful practice in a nutshell: Get outside your comfort zone but do it in a focused way, with clear goals, a plan for reaching those goals, and a way to monitor your progress.” - Anders Ericsson
Without purposeful practice, quantity does not produce quality, but rather just a larger q...
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