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How to Get Better at Anything

The Art of Manliness

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Mastering Skills Through Practice and Feedback

This chapter explores retrieval practice as a key strategy for effective learning, emphasizing the need for structured feedback mechanisms in skill development. Personal anecdotes highlight the significance of practice tests, writing workshops, and the role of variability in mastering skills across disciplines. Through examples from law and music, it argues that meaningful improvement often requires regression before progress, underscoring the complexity of transferring knowledge between contexts.

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