How to Use Cognitive Skills in Real Life

Experts are bad at introspecting their own cognitive procedures. We tend to underrate knowledge we've already acquired seeing it as obvious. The ease of automaticity fools us into thinking that complex skills that we perform are really simple. This can lead to an inappropriate devaluing of basic skills. A better test is to train a person on task A, then on task B, and then measure the time savings on B from the knowledge and skills acquired in A.