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What Makes Prodigy Stories Attractive?
One of the reasons that David points out on why prodigy stories are so attractive is because we're used to thinking of everything as being a trajectory. Hence why it's intuitive to want to give a kid a head start.
The problem with that is we don't follow linear progressions.
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World as a Learning Environment
We can think of the world as a learning environment, and the milieu in which you have to develop some kind of skill.
We can distinguish between two different learning environments:
- Kind learning...
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Wicked Learning Environments
In wicked learning environments, we find these characteristics:
- Information might be obscured
- There are no discernible rules
- The task can change
- Even the feedback you get can be...
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"The more we work in a rapidly changing world, where we're not exactly sure what we should do next, or what work will look like next year or in five years or years, the more we want those people who have had a broad view and can kind of draw different stories of knowle...
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The Wicked World
For the wicked world, you want a really broad training base, what scientists call a sampling period, where you're forming conceptual frameworks and abstract ideas that you can bend to the activity as the activity itself changes.
In the 20th Century
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About David Epstein
David Epstein is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World and The Sports Gene.
He holds a Master's degree in Environmental Science and
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"We are not wired correctly to interpret our own development, necessarily, 'cause we just want what comes the fastest when in many cases, slower development is actually the best in the long run."
DAVID EPSTEIN
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Lateral Thinkg with Withered Technology
Gunpei wasn't equipped to work on the cutting edge, but there was so much information available that he could take it from different domains and merge it.
As a result, he developed this philosophy which he named Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology.
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Kind Learning Environments
In this type of learning environments, we find clear rules and patterns tend to repeat. The performed task doesn't change.
F.e. Think of chess, the grandmaster's advantage is essentially based on recognizing recurring patterns.
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Gunpei Yokoi
Gunpei Yokoi didn't score well on his electronic university exams, resulting in him having to apply for a low tier job as a machine maintenance worker at a playing card company: Nintendo.
One day, Nintendo's president saw him playing around...
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Business Administration and Management Student | Blockchain, DEFI & Web3 | Social Worker | "Fix the money & fix the world."
Through this video, the best-seller author, David Epstein, demonstrates why divergent thinkers (or generalists) beat prodigies in the actual changing world.
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