Saturday, December 17, 2022
Training Lessons from Sports: Cue & Pattern Recognition
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The amateur watching a soccer game sees a swirl of activity, a seeming chaos of players darting back and forth. In contrast, the expert imm...
The Knowledge Inversion Problem
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People often learn things in one order but encounter them in another order. This is called knowledge-inversion. For example, medical stude...
Friday, July 10, 2020
Moravec's Paradox
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The roboticist, Hans Moravec, observed that it is relatively easy to get computers to achieve feats of higher cognition, but, difficult ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
The Role of Mental Energy in Intellectual Performance
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In his essay in the Genius and the Mind ( (1) David Lykken cites mental energy as a likely heritable characteristic of genius. ...
Stamina - The Unheralded Virtue
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"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue." Napoleon Bonaparte If...
Nurture versus Nature: How the Mix Changes when the Game Evolves
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Experts agree, almost universally, that performance is a function of both nurture and nature. The question is only in what bala...
Saturday, December 7, 2019
The 10k hr Rule - Another Perspective
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Why the Famous Finding May Not Mean What You Think By now, everyone knows this one: On average performers must put in 10,000 hours of delib...
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