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I can believe that the single most important predictor in sport (indeed many things) is practice. I suspect, however, that what also matters immensely is the ki

I can believe that the single most important predictor in sport (indeed many things) is practice. I suspect, however, that what also matters immensely is the kind of practice. For instance, often those in the gym that measure practice as "runs x distance in y time" or "do X exercises for Y weight in Z reps" are far, far more effective than those whose sole metric is "spend X amount of time doing Y'. It's the same with studying: I remember during my undergrad I saw people spending hours and hours "revising" by simply reading the math book back to front. I think a lot of people work hard but not necessarily as effectively as possible. People need to learn how to learn.

emerged 9y ago
In general, time should be spent on various levels of abstraction. It's important to spend time at practice and it's important to spend time learning how best to go about practice. It's also important to spend time deciding how much time to spend concerning yourself with each individual realm of practice (work, family, hobbies, fitness, etc). This is why I think one of the most important goals you can have is to devise a productivity strategy which reaches across all of these realms and levels of abstraction. That meta-skillset encapsulates all the others and has the widest impact.
- sitkack 9y ago
  This is just off the cuff, studying is a lot like like interviewing someone, in that you should be interviewing yourself for the knowledge you are learning. Summarize, explain to a lay person, contextualize, how it applies across time and in the domain, apply, solve problems. One should be able to give an extemporaneous speech to an educated, but non-expert of about 20-40 seconds that sums up your knowledge, and at any point in time.
watwut 9y ago
Imo, practice is most important predictor in sport only after you excluded all the people who are, depending on sport, too tall, too short, have too small hands, too short attention span, have wrong kind of muscle fibre (white vs red) etc.
- Double_a_92 9y ago
  > have wrong kind of muscle fibre (white vs red) How can you find out which one you have?
  - watwut 9y ago
    To get quality result, they take sample of your muscles. Dont do it at home. Less precise but easily available test: http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/muscle-fiber-composition.htm http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/muscle-fiber-compo...

emerged 9y ago

In general, time should be spent on various levels of abstraction. It's important to spend time at practice and it's important to spend time learning how best to go about practice. It's also important to spend time deciding how much time to spend concerning yourself with each individual realm of practice (work, family, hobbies, fitness, etc). This is why I think one of the most important goals you can have is to devise a productivity strategy which reaches across all of these realms and levels of abstraction. That meta-skillset encapsulates all the others and has the widest impact.

sitkack 9y ago
This is just off the cuff, studying is a lot like like interviewing someone, in that you should be interviewing yourself for the knowledge you are learning. Summarize, explain to a lay person, contextualize, how it applies across time and in the domain, apply, solve problems. One should be able to give an extemporaneous speech to an educated, but non-expert of about 20-40 seconds that sums up your knowledge, and at any point in time.

watwut 9y ago

Imo, practice is most important predictor in sport only after you excluded all the people who are, depending on sport, too tall, too short, have too small hands, too short attention span, have wrong kind of muscle fibre (white vs red) etc.

Double_a_92 9y ago
> have wrong kind of muscle fibre (white vs red) How can you find out which one you have?
- watwut 9y ago
  To get quality result, they take sample of your muscles. Dont do it at home. Less precise but easily available test: http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/muscle-fiber-composition.htm http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/muscle-fiber-compo...