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It may also be interesting to consider this in the context of learning physical skills. When you're learning something new, there are a lot of things that you a
by mhb 4y ago
It may also be interesting to consider this in the context of learning physical skills. When you're learning something new, there are a lot of things that you are doing wrong. A not-so-good coach will see them and start telling you things that you need to change. But you can't remember all these things. A good coach will find one key thing which you can keep in mind to work on.
The Inner Game of Tennis frames this as a difference between the two selves. Maybe that could be considered through the lens of decreasing the number of things you need to remember in order to improve.
- p-christ 4y agoyes! i think that's completely right, it takes so much energy & working memory to adapt to feedback that it's really easy to over-instruct people and give them too much feedback to handle.
- barumrho 4y agoI’m glad you brought up this point. I think there are analogues to “muscle memory” when it comes to learning concepts, too. For example, I don’t remember all the techniques to compute integrals explicitly, but I know that I’ll be able to pick it up quickly, because of my “muscle memory”. I feel like this falls into “remembering”, but not “memorizing” when it comes to definitions.
- mohamez 4y ago> Maybe that could be considered through the lens of decreasing the number of things you need to remember in order to improve. This! learning materials who master this way of information giving based on their importance is key to effective learning, and I think a lot of them don't give importance to it.
- cratermoon 4y agoThe best coaches I have worked with have cues they use instead of, or with, the explanations. Things like "pinch your shoulder blades" and "push the floor away". These give the practitioner an understanding of how it should feel, physically, without the need to go into details about which muscles and joints are involved.