513: Dr. Anders Ericsson | Science of Expertise
The Art of Charm
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The Importance of Memory in Chess
According to your work, there's no such thing as developing a general skill. You don't train memory for strings of digits that are really long or for collections of words and people's faces. This might explain why people who are really good at remembering really complex things forget their keys all the time or forget people's names. It's this higher level understanding that somehow allows you to reproduce the details.
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