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How do you actually get good in messy, real world domains? This tag covers practice, pedagogy design, theories of expert cognition, and the very cutting edge of expertise research.
All great business people share a common, intuitive mental model of business. We look at how researcher Lia DiBello extracted that mental model.
A look at two syllabuses for learning the art of business, why they're rare, and why to take notice when a practitioner mentions one.
We take a look at how you might turn extracted, tacit expertise into a training program for yourself or others.
How to pick tree books and branch books, demonstrated using an example of a reading program I developed for B2B sales.
A look at Laura Militello and Robert Hutton's Applied Cognitive Task Analysis, a simplified method for getting at the tacit expertise of others.
If you can only put two ideas to practice a week, then you're inevitably going to have to deal with a bottleneck of 'to-experiment' ideas.
Why the best way to get a reading speedup is to read a lot about some specific topic.
Neuroplasticity is an oft-quoted scientific idea, used to explain skill acquisition. But it's not actually that useful to the practitioner. Here's why.
How to take ideas from books and blog posts and turn them into effective personal experiments.
When reading actionable content, it might be a good idea to read only what you can put to the test.