The Hidden Why Podcast 1105 Get Better at Anything with Scott Young
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May 5, 2024 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Scott Young discusses the power of continuous learning, deliberate practice for skill improvement, breaking boundaries with constraints, and embracing passion for skill development in a captivating conversation on personal growth and mastery.
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Learning Is Shaped By Your Environment
- Environments where you can easily observe experts accelerate learning dramatically.
- Scott Young shows Tetris and internet communities made current players far better than earlier generations.
Choose Learning-Rich Environments
- Seek places where best practices and techniques are transparent and shared.
- Choose jobs, communities, or schools where you can see how top performers solve problems.
Ask For Step-By-Step Walkthroughs
- Interview experts about exact actions they took, not generic advice.
- Ask them to walk through a specific decision step-by-step to surface hidden practices.