deliberate practice
I should be asking my friends and family about what kind of Deliberate Practice they are doing for their skills.
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thatvastvariety.substack.com thatvastvariety.substack.com
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Practicing piano scales is a boring grind, but even the world’s best pianists do it. What is your version of this? You should have an answer. Tyler Cowen has some thoughts here and here.
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I’m endlessly recommending people to have lots and lots of 1-1 informational career chats for more personalized feedback (“networking”).
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I’d argue your north star should be building the relevant skills and expertise while letting people know that you have them, not just “getting a cool job.”
Very actionable insight
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- Dec 2021
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learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.content.blackboardcdn.com learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.content.blackboardcdn.com
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Dreams or vision quests: among Iroquoian-speaking peoplesin the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was consideredextremely important literally to realize one’s dreams. ManyEuropean observers marvelled at how Indians would be willingto travel for days to bring back some object, trophy, crystal oreven an animal like a dog that they had dreamed of acquiring.Anyone who dreamed about a neighbour or relative’spossession (a kettle, ornament, mask and so on) couldnormally demand it; as a result, such objects would oftengradually travel some way from town to town. On the GreatPlains, decisions to travel long distances in search of rare orexotic items could form part of vision quests.34
- On ‘dream economies’ among the Iroquois see Graeber 2001: 145–9. David Graeber. 2001. Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. New York: Palgrave.
These dreams and vision quests sound suspiciously familiar to Australian indigenous peoples' "dreaming" and could be incredibly similar to much larger and longer songlines in North American cultures.
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