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Ramses Oudt
Ramses Oudt
@rroudt
Working on a newsletter edition about deliberate practice.

Deliberate practice is crucial if you want to reach expert level in any skill, but what is it, and how can it help you learn more precisely?

A thread based on @augustbradley's conversation with the late Anders Ericsson.

You can find my complete notes from the conversation in my public Roam graph:
https://t.co/Z5bXHsg3oc

The entire conversation is on

The 10,000-hour 'rule' was based on Ericsson's research, but simple practice is not enough for mastery.

We need teachers and coaches to give us feedback on how we're doing to adjust our actions effectively. Technology can help us by providing short feedback loops.

There's purposeful and deliberate practice.

In purposeful practice, you gain breakthroughs by trying out different techniques you find on your own.

In deliberate practice, an expert tells you what to improve on and how to do it, and then you do that (while getting feedback).

It's possible to come to powerful techniques through purposeful practice, but it's always a gamble.

Deliberate practice is possible with a map of the domain and a recommended way to move through it. This makes success more likely.
EDUCATION
Ramses Oudt
Ramses Oudt
@rroudt
Become a learning worker by creating intermediate packets.

By narrowing the scope of my work and shipping more often, my knowledge work is more effective and valuable.

🧵 A thread with 7 reasons to create intermediate deliverables.
🔗 Link to my 2,300-word piece on the topic 👇

What are intermediate packets?

Simply put, the smallest publishable part of knowledge work.

Think outline versus email, notes versus blog post. By breaking up work into its parts and saving those, we can become much more effective.

Long version

I create intermediate packets because they help me to:

• Provide value more often
• Become interruption-proof
• Create in any circumstance
• Stay motivated
• Help my future self
• Get more and better feedback
• Avoid heavy lifts

Intermediate packets help me provide value more often.

As a knowledge worker, I only create value when my output is used by someone else. I'm in the business of ideas, but if nobody uses them, my work is useless.

Shorter bursts of output give me more opportunities to help.

Intermediate packets make me interruption- proof.

Working with knowledge means using your fragile working memory. The fuller that memory, the more impactful distractions.

Narrowing the work scope and externalizing it, it's easier to return to your work after an interruption.
LEARNING WORKER
Ramses Oudt
Ramses Oudt
@rroudt
Everyone should be a lifelong learner.

We stagnate when we're okay with the status quo. But by spotting areas for improvement, we can thrive and live a life worth living.

🧵 My top five reasons to keep learning.


Learning doesn't stop when you leave school.

If you want to thrive in life, you should always be learning. Once you embrace learning as a part of your life, the world will become a playground full of possibilities.

Five reasons everyone should be a lifelong learner:

Reason 1: Learning is fun

Learning allows adults to be playful like kids. Following our curiosity and learning something new, we get little hits of dopamine — the neurotransmitter associated with rewards.

Learning is natural, but it gets shrouded in seriousness the older we get.

Make learning fun to keep it sustainable.

Reason 2: Learning creates possibilities

Most modern jobs rely on specialized knowledge, but that knowledge is changing fast. Companies look for people who can learn new skills quickly.

If you can proof you can learn something, you'll have a job.
SOCIETY