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When Things Click

Hidden Brain

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The Skills Lab, by Martin Martin

The goal of the skill lab is to take tools and to teach each individual tool until it can be used fluently. Martin had some challenges in designing his lab - cost was one. Practising on medical grade materials like cadavers and plastic bones just didn't make sense. Instead, he came up with cheap substitutes like p b c, pipe twine and two by force. One of my favorite models is the cast on an egg plant. They put an actual cast, like you have on a broken arm, on an egg plants. Then they ask residents to saw off the cast without cutting the egg plant. An egg plant is very similar to fragile skin, so the cast on there

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