Cedric Chin

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Cedric Chin

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Organisational Politics: Beware the Simple Story

If our brains are built to generate and process narrative, then how can we use this insight to grapple with company politics?

An Update on Perceptual Exposure as Learning Technique

Perceptual exposure is a learning technique that uses the brain's ability to pattern match against deep perceptual cues.

Peak

A book summary of a 2016 book called Peak which summarised three decades of research into the nature and development of expertise.

Lessons Learnt From Reading 51 Books in 2018

I tried reading a book a week last year. Here's what I learnt, what I found surprising, and what I'm taking forwards.

Putting Mental Models to Practice Part 6: A Personal Epistemology of Practice

This is the final part of a series of posts [https://commoncog.com/a-framework-for-putting-mental-models-to-practice/] on…

The Problems with Deliberate Practice

Have you ever tried putting deliberate practice to practice? If you have, it's likely that you'll have noticed just how difficult it is to apply deliberate practice principles to your career. Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying; here's why.

Putting Mental Models to Practice Part 5: Skill Extraction

Last week we covered a model for expertise called recognition-primed decision making. This week, we talk about how to use that model to build expertise of your own.

Putting Mental Models to Practice Part 4: Expert Decision Making

Experts make decisions in ways that are very, very different from conventional decision science models. This makes expertise a lot more important to good decision making than you might think.

Putting Mental Models to Practice Part 3: Better Trial and Error

Instrumental rationality is the sort of thinking that allows you to achieve your goals. We take a closer look at what decision science says is the 'best' way to pursue this purpose.

Putting Mental Models to Practice, Part 2: An Introduction to Rationality

Any discussion of practicing mental models must begin with a discussion of rationality. We look at what the research tells us about it.