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There is a parable of the teacher who gives a student a challenge: Here is a stone. Here is a tower with one hundred stairs to the top. Your job is to bring the stone to the of the tower. Cradling the heavy stone, the student top manages to get it to the door of the tower. But the door is very narrow and the stone is too wide. No matter how the student turns the stone, it cannot fit through the door.
The task you have given me is impossible, cries the student. The teacher takes a hammer and cracks the stone open so that the pieces all fit easily through the door. The stone is your heart, says the teacher. Only a broken heart can rise upward
Wild Problems
Russ Roberts
The most basic decision-making skill is adapting to the tempo of your environment, and setting your own pace within it. It is significantly harder to become a pace-setter or pace-disruptor: somebody who can actually influence the tempo of the environment. The collection of behaviors involved in managing tempo is what people mean by the phrase sense of timing, and there is a lot going on beneath the sublime moments in comedy or stock trading that they have in mind when they use the phrase.
How do we get a performer to move to a different area of the solution space? We change the constraints, of course!
The Advanced Ecological Approach to Skill Development
Rob Gray
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