Posted November 07 2012 - 10:35 AM
Not to advocate tautologies or anything, but one of the fundamental ideas underlying science and research is that it’s generally not possible to know the value of something, some knowledge, before, well, you know it; our perspectives are oftentimes biased, misinformed or shortsighted in this way.
With that in mind, I’m interested in knowing as many true things as possible, as few false things as possible and subsequently in optimising performance </resume>, so reading about often overlooked facets of skill acquisition and learning processes is interesting to me.
It’s easy to look at some of the points listed and tldr them to, “Play game, don’t suck, fruit salad,” but ultimately this is exactly what demonstrably separates people that are good at something and people that are great at something, as a few of the references I provided explain.
TL;DR: Went ahead and changed the title in light of the digerati pseudo-rage.