First and foremost, I totally agree with your point on this sort of thing being instrumentally useful, I’m still having issues seeing how to apply it to my real life. Here are two questions that arise for me:
I’m curious about two aspects of deliberate practice that seem interconnected:
On OODA loops: I currently maintain yearly, quarterly, weekly, and daily review cycles where I plan and reflect on progress. However, I wonder if there are specific micro-skills you’re pointing to beyond this—perhaps noticing subtle emotional tells when encountering uncomfortable topics, or developing finer-grained feedback mechanisms. How does this type of systematic review practice fit into your framework for deliberate practice? Are there particular refinements or additional elements you’d recommend? Is it noticing when I’m not doing OODA?
On unlearning: While your post focuses extensively on learning practices, I’m interested in your thoughts on “unlearning”—the process of identifying and releasing ineffective patterns or beliefs. In my experience with meditation, there seems to be a distinction between intellectual understanding and emotional understanding, where sometimes what holds us back isn’t insufficient practice but rather old patterns that need to be examined and released. How do you see the relationship between building new skills and creating space for new patterns through deliberate unlearning? One of the sayings I’ve heard said is that “meditation is the process of taking intellectual understanding and turning it into emotional understanding” which I find quite interesting.
First and foremost, I totally agree with your point on this sort of thing being instrumentally useful, I’m still having issues seeing how to apply it to my real life. Here are two questions that arise for me:
I’m curious about two aspects of deliberate practice that seem interconnected:
On OODA loops: I currently maintain yearly, quarterly, weekly, and daily review cycles where I plan and reflect on progress. However, I wonder if there are specific micro-skills you’re pointing to beyond this—perhaps noticing subtle emotional tells when encountering uncomfortable topics, or developing finer-grained feedback mechanisms. How does this type of systematic review practice fit into your framework for deliberate practice? Are there particular refinements or additional elements you’d recommend? Is it noticing when I’m not doing OODA?
On unlearning: While your post focuses extensively on learning practices, I’m interested in your thoughts on “unlearning”—the process of identifying and releasing ineffective patterns or beliefs. In my experience with meditation, there seems to be a distinction between intellectual understanding and emotional understanding, where sometimes what holds us back isn’t insufficient practice but rather old patterns that need to be examined and released. How do you see the relationship between building new skills and creating space for new patterns through deliberate unlearning? One of the sayings I’ve heard said is that “meditation is the process of taking intellectual understanding and turning it into emotional understanding” which I find quite interesting.