There are enough situations where the missing strategic piece is a failure to concentrate your forces to make it a good concept to drill into people’s heads. I’m a new MS student in a biomedical engineering lab, and a big boost to my learning rate was reading and visualizing/acting out protocols before my instructor showed them to me for real. Instead of spreading out my attention to trying to learn ever more things, I prioritize being rapidly successful when I’m being taught something new. Everything works much better that way.
Also, sometimes, thinking in terms of force concentration can make it easier to perceive relevant moments, because you know what you’re searching for. It’s related to decomposing a big problem into its constituent parts, a skill that many people need to practice before it becomes natural. There’s plenty of low hanging fruit here for people who don’t already think habitually in these terms. At a certain point, you’ve likely exhausted the gains from problems whose decomposition and “relevant moments” are obvious.
I note that this and the above point are compatible/not necessarily in disagreement.
thinking in terms of force concentration can make it easier to perceive relevant moments, because you know what you’re searching for
Yeah. One of the most revelatory questions anyone ever asked me was “so, you say you’re searching for romantic partners. Where are they? Like, literally, right now, right this moment, where in the physical world are the kinds of people you think you want to date and marry? Are they at the library, the park, the bar, the skating rink—what?”
Which led me to realize that I’d been putting most of my efforts in places where those people weren’t.
There are enough situations where the missing strategic piece is a failure to concentrate your forces to make it a good concept to drill into people’s heads. I’m a new MS student in a biomedical engineering lab, and a big boost to my learning rate was reading and visualizing/acting out protocols before my instructor showed them to me for real. Instead of spreading out my attention to trying to learn ever more things, I prioritize being rapidly successful when I’m being taught something new. Everything works much better that way.
Also, sometimes, thinking in terms of force concentration can make it easier to perceive relevant moments, because you know what you’re searching for. It’s related to decomposing a big problem into its constituent parts, a skill that many people need to practice before it becomes natural. There’s plenty of low hanging fruit here for people who don’t already think habitually in these terms. At a certain point, you’ve likely exhausted the gains from problems whose decomposition and “relevant moments” are obvious.
I note that this and the above point are compatible/not necessarily in disagreement.
Yeah. One of the most revelatory questions anyone ever asked me was “so, you say you’re searching for romantic partners. Where are they? Like, literally, right now, right this moment, where in the physical world are the kinds of people you think you want to date and marry? Are they at the library, the park, the bar, the skating rink—what?”
Which led me to realize that I’d been putting most of my efforts in places where those people weren’t.