Cedric Chin - Learn How to Go from Novice to Expert in 90 Mins

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Aug 17, 2024

Cedric Chin is a business operator, programmer, and founder of Commoncog, a platform focused on business expertise. He discusses the limitations of mental models and the challenges of deliberate practice. Cedric shares insights on how to transition from novice to expert by considering practical applications of theoretical knowledge. He emphasizes the importance of reading biographies, addresses the role of luck in success, and critiques conventional decision-making approaches. He also touches on the impact of social media on focus and engagement.

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Intro

00:00 • 3min

Navigating Expertise Through Real-World Insights

02:37 • 26min

Accelerating Expertise: Learning from Experts

29:01 • 27min

Mastering Knowledge Through Experience

55:55 • 26min

Mindful Engagement with Social Media

01:21:47 • 2min

Luck vs. Skill in Success

01:24:11 • 5min

Exploring Believability and the Controversy of Cryptocurrency

01:29:12 • 4min

Living in Singapore: Humidity, Culinary Delights, and Business Insight

01:33:32 • 4min

Cedric Chin is a business operator, programmer, and writer. He is also the founder of Commoncog - a publication that explores the models of business expertise and how to accelerate the acquisition of that expertise. His approach to writing and learning is finding interesting ideas, trying them out in his life, and then sharing the results. Over the years he has compiled an extensive knowledge base on how to think and learn better in business and beyond. In this episode we speak about the limits of mental models, Ray Dalio & believability, three approaches to expertise, why you should read biographies, overcoming information overload and so much more.

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0:00 - Intro
2:54 - What led Cedric to study expertise (limits of mental models)
8:05 - The Problem with Deliberate Practice
10:05 - What is Commoncog?
12:48 - Ray Dalio & Believability
21:03 - Sensemaking Less Wrong (Epistemic vs Instrumental Rationality)
25:11 - How “Irrational” people can be successful
26:39 - Gary Klein VS Daniel Kahneman
29:44 - Three approaches to gaining expertise
34:20 - What is tacit Knowledge?
38:38 - The Recognition Primed Decision Making Model
47:30 - Cognitive Task Analysis
49:49 - The most important questions to ask experts
52:10 - Accelerating expertise in meditation & transmission of mind
56:48 - How to actually learn from books
1:00:50 - Cognitive Flexibility Theory & ill-structured domains
1:06:55 - Integration (noticing sameness & difference)
1:09:31 - Using case studies to become an expert in cult dynamics
1:13:21 - Why you should read biographies
1:16:52 - How to overcome Information overload
1:21:48 - Mindful social media use
1:25:22 - Luck vs skill in success
1:30:48 - Cedric’s opinion on Crypto
1:33:54 - The best and worst thing about living in Singapore
1:34:59 - Building the biggest storehouse of business expertise