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>What's the best way to learn a thing? >By doing that thing, repeatedly.

Wow, really activates my almonds. That massive complex academic performance for a conclusion you could have received if you just asked your grandmother.

To me, this is a branch of scientism.



There are lots of examples of counter intuitive results and lots of examples of “obviously true” statements turning out to be false after a rigorous study. Here is an example of a study that reinforces the “obvious”. That doesn’t make the study without merit or that it was a waste of time.


There is an open question of what smaller things can you teach someone to do so they can do the next more difficult thing.

Music education is full of standard exercises like this that build skills and fluency in them until students can combine them in ways that seem magical to outsiders.


"Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer" - Duncan Watts


"I could have told you that."

- Grandma




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