Deliberate Practice

Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.

Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.

Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.

Approach a situation as if you knew nothing.

Unusual or bizarre material is more memorable than common material.

Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).

When a system in equilibrium is disturbed, it shifts to counteract the change.

Systems with weak corrective feedback drift unchecked into failure modes.

Putting off action under present bias, inertia, or choice overload.

Thinking about yourself in the third person reduces emotional reactivity and improves judgment.

A combination of complementary skills that produces compounding advantage greater than the sum of parts.

A federal mandate intended to lower drug costs for the poor became a profit engine for hospitals and contract pharmacies.

Drawing a conclusion from the absence of evidence rather than its presence.

Map reinforcing (R) and balancing (B) feedback loops between variables to see system behavior.

Removing a quote from its context to distort its meaning.

Dread weighs roughly double in our calculus what the equivalent gain does.

For a claim to be scientific, it must be possible to prove it false.

We return to a baseline of well-being after gains or losses.