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49: Peak by Anders Ericsson

Bookworm

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Mental Representations - Part 3

Mental representations are little tiny pieces that you create and become so ingrained in the way that you do things, they then become building blocks to develop even more mental representations. The classic example here is learning to read. Another example would be scales. For a musician, another example would be chess openings. This is where he talked a lot about about chess. He's kind of sessed with chess. And i like that though, because i i think that's a great example. Yes, mental representations are basically patterns that help you to remember things.

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