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#86: The Science of Spontaneity - Edward Slingerland, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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How to Learn a New Skill

When i was playing tennis, actually recently, i realized that when i stopped paying attention to my mechanics and just focused on where exactly on the cord i wanted the ball to land, i was doing way better. I mean, there's no easy way. Learning a new skill Is about conscious effort. That's one of the reasons that, ou know, we have cognitive control, is to re program our hot cognition so that we can acquire acquire new skills. So youkno, my my ex wife's brother is a jaz pianist in rome. He practises improvising. And heh's been playing the piano his whole life. But yet, you can't improv

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