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"Not always—some pilots have 1500 hours, and others have the same hour, 1500 times in a row—but there can be a huge difference." This is an excellent statement
by dpflan 8y ago
"Not always—some pilots have 1500 hours, and others have the same hour, 1500 times in a row—but there can be a huge difference."
This is an excellent statement emphasizing the importance of concepts like deliberate practice and a varied curriculum/experiences. I think this idea applies to all learning.
- danaliv 8y agoAlso the importance of regular evaluation. You can develop a lot of bad habits in 1500 hours.
- Jtsummers 8y agoAs my band conductor drilled into us: > Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect. Of course "perfect practice" is an ideal, and you can't achieve it yourself without having someone or something assist to evaluate in most cases. But repeating the same mistakes for 1500 hours just makes you really good at making those mistakes.
- munk-a 8y agoI don't think this is a good general saying, most activities that we're performing have discoverable local maxima we can achieve... or most people will achieve, by varying their technique to observe how much better/worse easier/harder the task becomes. That said something like an instrument that is very highly tied to developing memory muscle is definitely something you can learn _wrong_. Similarly any activity where actual execution of the task is expensive/infeasible (combat for instance) also benefits a lot more from instruction.
- ticmasta 8y agoDefinitely relates to software dev where some developers have 15 years experience and some have 15x 1 year of the same thing. In reality I think most developers have careers that look like: * 2-3 years of explosive growth and exposure * 5-10 years of slower growth and increased mastery * then diverge to shorter periods of stair-stepping (new technologies / faster mastery), coast on what they already know well or move out of active development