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.
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.
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.
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.
Any discussion of putting mental models to practice must begin with a discussion of the study of rationality. Here we look at what the research tells us about good judgment and decision making.
Charlie Munger's Elementary Worldly Wisdom prescribes learning mental models from many different fields in order to develop better thinking. In this series, we develop a framework for actually putting that to practice.
