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Ron Friedmann on Using Reverse Engineering to Master New Skills Faster

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

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How Malcolm Gladwell Reverse Engineered a Novel

Malcolm gladwell was influenced by le ross and paul nisbet, who were sose of psychologist university michigan. They had studies and they had stories, and they interweaved them. And i think that is an example of him taking somethng that was working in the spy gonra, adding it to the lee ross and napaul nisbit approach, and applying it to create original new yorker pieces. Almost every non fiction book uses this approach, where they interweave stories and studies.

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