Money and Finance
- Learning And Fundamentals...
From Josh Waitzkin in The Art of Learning, and applicable to investing and just about everything else as well:As I struggled for a more precise grasp of my own learning process, I was forced to retrace my steps and remember what had been internalized...
- How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? Talent
Link to article: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent The 8-year-old juggling a soccer ball and the 48-year-old jogging by, with Japanese lessons ringing from her earbuds, have something fundamental in common: At some level, both are wondering whether...
- Wsj: Learning How To Focus On Focus - By Jonah Lehrer
Found via Farnam Street. For most of human history, the progress of knowledge was constrained by a shortage of information. Books were expensive and rare, libraries were reserved for elite scholars and communication was extremely slow. Mail moved at the...
- Which Traits Predict Success? (the Importance Of Grit) - By Jonah Lehrer
Found via Simoleon Sense.What are the causes of success? At first glance, the answer is easy: success is about talent. It’s about being able to do something – hit a baseball, play chess, trade stocks, write a blog – better than most anyone else....
- Genius: The Modern View - By David Brooks
A big thanks to Miguel for passing this article along, as it applies to a subject that I am very interested in. Some people live in romantic ages. They tend to believe that genius is the product of a divine spark. They believe that there have been, throughout...
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The Expert Mind
But how do the experts in these various subjects acquire their extraordinary skills? How much can be credited to innate talent and how much to intensive training? Psychologists have sought answers in studies of chess masters. The collected results of a century of such research have led to new theories explaining how the mind organizes and retrieves information. What is more, this research may have important implications for educators. Perhaps the same techniques used by chess players to hone their skills could be applied in the classroom to teach reading, writing and arithmetic.
- Learning And Fundamentals...
From Josh Waitzkin in The Art of Learning, and applicable to investing and just about everything else as well:As I struggled for a more precise grasp of my own learning process, I was forced to retrace my steps and remember what had been internalized...
- How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? Talent
Link to article: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent The 8-year-old juggling a soccer ball and the 48-year-old jogging by, with Japanese lessons ringing from her earbuds, have something fundamental in common: At some level, both are wondering whether...
- Wsj: Learning How To Focus On Focus - By Jonah Lehrer
Found via Farnam Street. For most of human history, the progress of knowledge was constrained by a shortage of information. Books were expensive and rare, libraries were reserved for elite scholars and communication was extremely slow. Mail moved at the...
- Which Traits Predict Success? (the Importance Of Grit) - By Jonah Lehrer
Found via Simoleon Sense.What are the causes of success? At first glance, the answer is easy: success is about talent. It’s about being able to do something – hit a baseball, play chess, trade stocks, write a blog – better than most anyone else....
- Genius: The Modern View - By David Brooks
A big thanks to Miguel for passing this article along, as it applies to a subject that I am very interested in. Some people live in romantic ages. They tend to believe that genius is the product of a divine spark. They believe that there have been, throughout...