Thank you for the comment Saul—I agree with a lot of your points, in particular that “explosive” periods are costly and inefficient (relative perhaps to some ideal), and that they are not in and of themselves a solution for long-term retention.
I expect if we have a crux it’s whether someone who intends to follow an incremental path vs someone who does an intense acquisition period is more likely to, ~ a year later, actually have the skill. And my guess is, for a number of reasons, it’s the later; I’d expect a lot of incrementalists to ‘just not actually do the thing’.
* My ideal strategy would be “explore lightly a number of things, to determine what you want → explode towards that for an intense period of time → establish incremental practices to maintain and improve”
* Your comment also highlighted for me, something that I had cut from the initial draft, my belief that explosive periods help overcome emotional blockers, which I think might be a big part of why people shy away from skills they say they want.
Thank you for the comment Saul—I agree with a lot of your points, in particular that “explosive” periods are costly and inefficient (relative perhaps to some ideal), and that they are not in and of themselves a solution for long-term retention.
I expect if we have a crux it’s whether someone who intends to follow an incremental path vs someone who does an intense acquisition period is more likely to, ~ a year later, actually have the skill. And my guess is, for a number of reasons, it’s the later; I’d expect a lot of incrementalists to ‘just not actually do the thing’.
* My ideal strategy would be “explore lightly a number of things, to determine what you want → explode towards that for an intense period of time → establish incremental practices to maintain and improve”
* Your comment also highlighted for me, something that I had cut from the initial draft, my belief that explosive periods help overcome emotional blockers, which I think might be a big part of why people shy away from skills they say they want.