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As far as the “when” goes, if we follow this approach, we want to add higher variability relatively late in the skill acquisition process because we need the basic technique already developed first. That is why we start training with athletes dribbling around cones, hitting off tees, and always practicing golf swings on flat ground. We are purposely reducing the variability and removing things like decision making because the “correct” technique is best established through low variability, repeatable conditions.
How We Learn to Move a Revolution in the Way We Coach Practice Sports Skills
Rob Gray
Not to mention, research shows that one of the best things you can do when you’re in a jam is to smile. In a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which I wrote about two years ago, researchers found that even in unpleasant situations, smiling lowers physiological markers of stress and increases positive feelings.
4 Lessons the NBA Playoffs Can Teach You About Peak Performance
Brad Stulberg
A brain that can do so many impressive things but at the same time severely misunderstands itself.
> A brain that constructs such rich mental experiences that we feel like emotion and reason wrestle inside us
> A brain that's so complex that we describe it by metaphors and mistake them for knowledge
>A brain that's so skilled at rewiring itself that we think we're born with all sorts of things that we actually learn
> A brain that's so effective at hallucinating that we believe we see the world objectively, and so fast at predicting that we mistake our movements for reactions
> A brain that regulates other brains so invisibly that we presume we're independent of each other
> A brain that creates so many kinds of minds that we assume there's a single human nature to explain them all
> A brain that's so good at believing its own inventions that we mistake social reality for the natural world
We know much about the brain today, but there are still so many more lessons to learn.
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
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