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Ep. 39: DAVID EPSTEIN on Skills, Practice, and the Subtle Art of Cultivating a Meaningful Career
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Cognitively Complex Tasks - Is There Still Disagreement?
San: It takes a lot of practice to be great at a lot of things, and often much more than people think. I also think that people can im typically underestimate how good they can get at most em but we still had some disagreement in that when he said, well, this is for a cognitively complex task. Yes, that means it takes longer to develop certain levels of expertise,. But you actually see a widening of the gap between how long it takes people. So as the complexity level goes up, yes, it takes, it takes longer for anyone to achieve mastery - even with simple tasks like air traffic controlling.
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