Joshua Foer: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone and Study Yourself Failing
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- About this presentation
When most of us learn a new skill, we work to get just "good enough" and then we go on autopilot. We hit what journalist and bestselling author Joshua Foer calls the "OK Plateau," where we have gained sufficient skills for our needs and we stop pushing ourselves.
But experts do it differently. Looking at the research on everyone from incredible athletes to memory champions, Foer has extracted four principles that describe how to push through the OK Plateau to achieve true greatness. Watch this fantastic talk to learn strategies for developing expertise in any field.
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1:40 Acquiring a new skill goes through 3 stages
1:44 Cognitive stage
2:00 Association stage
2:06 Autonomous stage
2:50 "Okay plateau"
8:13 If you want to get better at something you cant do it at the autonomous stage
8:39 (experts) Use strategies to control memory
9:28 (experts) Come out of their comfort zones and study themselves failing
11:13 (experts) Try and walk in the shoes of someone more confident
13:08 (experts) Crave and thrive off of constant feedback
14:28 (experts) Practice that's not deliberate practice
14:51 (experts) Treat what they do as a science
16:31 How to conquer these "okay plateau's"
About Joshua Foer
At a time when electronic devices have all but rendered our individual memory obsolete, Joshua Foer has made a compelling bid to resurrect the forgotten art of remembering with the bestselling book Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.
Joshua was born in Washington, DC in 1982 and lives in New Haven, CT with his wife Dinah. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, Esquire, Slate, Outside, the New York Times, and other publications. He is the co-founder of the Atlas Obscura, an online guide to the world's wonders and curiosities. He is also the co-founder of the architectural design competition, Sukkah City.
About 99U
The 99U delivers the action-oriented education that you didn't get in school, highlighting real-world best practices for making ideas happen.
1.Choose a skill, be aware about how you learn and especially how you fail rather what's making you fail at your objective
2. Look upto experts , model them and question their process to understand why they succeed
3. have quick feedback mechanism -have a measurement on what basis there is progress in you learning the skill
4. Be a scientist. treat the skill as an experiment to look at it objectively and make corrections accordingly
Thank you Joshua for the insights
“It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein
one of the best talks/video i have ever stumbled upon..well structured,informative,concise.. typing out of my comfort speed from now on ;)
No one can do better in talking about expertise than Joshua Foer despite being a Journalist, memory champion, author of very famous 'moon walking with Einstein' etc. This shows his versatility. The OK PLATEAU is the catching concept of this talk and how to overcome it as this is where people stop improving their skills. This is an eye opener talk.
One of most amazing and usefull videos i watched. This can be simple explained by juggling. ok plauteau is usually with three balls. Most people that knows how to juggling just stops at three balls. We feel very confortably being good with just three balls.
Its just a plateau. lean on your edge, dont be ok with just three balls. 4, 5, 6 balls. dont stay on your confort zone so much.
To become an expert one needs to conquer their OK plateus; those which arise in self from our ability to not only intellectualise tasks in the begining but also to make fewer errors later. For helping us to continue to survive and live remarkably; we need to go beyound all these. Doing so helps us to become able to travel the path of the journey of becoming experts; i.e those who do things in a better way than earlier
EXPERTS 1) use strategies 2 help them stay out of automomous / autopilot stage N bcome more skillfull; 2) tend 2 operate outside their comfort zone n study themselves/ watch their selves fail / look at the causes thereof; 3) walk in the shoes of those who R more confident than themselves; 4) crave n thrive on immediate and constant feed-back; 5) treat what they do as a science; i.e they collect analyse data and create theories regarding best practises.
I share the same thoughts on the world. Well put joshua foer you are a living legend
Spot on! to the point and practical advice. Stay with this approach!!
Joshua Foer is awesome.
I love that guy sharing its secret weapon
This was a great talk. It is inspiring to me, because it really hits home.
Being Mary Jane brought me here. Needed to hear this more than ever. Wow.
Very interesting concept. I'd like to try these methods from now on.
Fantastic ideas ... really appreciate
Amazing video. A must watch
Simply amazing,
His book "moonwalking with Einstein" is a more detailed version of this story for anyone who might be curious.
Moon walking with Einstein*
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Wow, awesome stuff! But for a Dental Phobic, stepping outside of my comfort zone can get quite terrifying.
great talk!
I thought about that 4-minute mile thing, and what about performance enhancing substances?
His message was interesting and intriguing, however, I was entirely too distracted by his pacing. Movement from on area of the stage to the other should be to help communicate a transition of subject. His pacing is seems to be a nervous response to public speaking
+mares873 Just listen to the audio if it's distracting. He's probably imagining walking in his mind palace to keep on subject.
He basically said push yourself hard.
People in that room had no idea the kind of genius that they were witnessing.
This video has way too few views