I learned something similar for writing books. So, you also start with the end and then you let your characters tell how they ended up here. It's like a switch in your mind how to think about things.
'Learning How to Learn' is what everyone should be focusing on. Barbara Oakley has a great free Course on Coursera on this subject and she also has written a very beneficial book titled 'A Mind for Numbers' If I remember correctly. Tim always delivers valuable content.
When my dad taught me how to play chess, in the 1950s, he started with the end game, I.e., with just a queen and king against his lone king, and with other combination. In the 1950s.
Amen. As an artist, professionally and personally, I find my time under assault constantly. "Me time" has to occur to allow for creation. Amen. Thanks, man. Good to hear someone else say it too.
True. I've done this. Not on the calendar yet, but my natural laziness and self-satisfaction, helps me create creative time, in chunks. I'm self-employed, so that makes it easier. I'm a musician, and all of this applies.
Mark Dvoretzki, arguably the world's most recognized chess trainer, who sadly passed away last year, also set the focus on endgames when teaching chess.
I learned that the "end game" also applies to writing books, mostly fiction. What is the ending? What is the plot building up to? I like to start here, then build the beginning, then put the middle together to connect the dots. This allows me to read the end of the story, go back to the beginning and add in some epic foreshadowing, then slowly build back up to the ending. Sadly I learned this over years upon years of research, so I had to rewrite my book several times, because when I read the original story again, I saw it was crap. .-.
For the first part, being put in tough spaces in life will teach you some of this even if you don't want to learn that way, but it is a seemingly vital method. Most of us practice it and agree with it. Sometimes it's the only way to learn. Although it's not so nice to be taught that way without a fair warning.
If you want to learn more about what he's talking about in regards to Josh Waitzkin I advise you to read Josh's book, The Art of Learning. He explains how he transferred his knowledge of learning chess into learning and mastering Jiu-jitsu. It's good, but I don't think you can transfer everything he says in every aspect of your life. Like everything, it has to be taken with a grain of salt. Maybe you can get an insight but trying to force the concepts from that book into everything, like startups (cause it's trendy and makes people want to buy my book) is wrong. Josh shares his experience and what you take out of it is up to you, but there's never a magic bullet that will make you happy and successful.
As soon as I saw the title of this video, I knew Josh Waitzkin would be mentioned. I highly recommend everybody pick up a copy of his book, "The Art of Learning".
I loved those interviews with Josh. As Tim was talking my memory recalled different snippets like how Marcelo (?) was not concerned with his opponents watching him train before a competition. Also the importance of learning principles that can be applied to many domains. Interestingly I also recalled where I was when tuned in.
What's with all the namedropping and "jokes"? Here's a recap without the sales talk: 1. Figure out the end situation of your process and how you wish for it to play out 2. Figure out the central principles that apply to that situation and apply them to the bigger picture by reverse-engineering the whole process 3. Remember to have at least one uninterrupted 3-5 hour block of time for creative work each week. How this is supposed to be a formula for "mastery", I don't know. Robert Greene wrote a brilliant book about mastery, called "Mastery".
Thank you so much. I watched the first 3 minutes of the video and got little to none information on the main topic that was discussed. Thanks for TL/DW.
Ankhbayr Ts No problem... I think this was a sales pitch for Tim Ferriss more than anything. I'd say that kind of advice doesn't go very far unless he explains *how* to "learn the macro from the micro". Either that, or I'm just too dumb.
Right, how dare he joke? We need the strategies....NOW!!!!!! GIVE ME THE STRATEGIES SO I CAN BE HAPPY!!!!! STOP JOKING!!! DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUN OR A GAME?!...
+dnanidref1 Thanks for your satirical input. There's nothing wrong with joking of course - and I'm already happy, thank you - but for the whole duration of the video Ferriss is dropping stale jokes and big names *instead* of talking about the supposed subject of the video. So, I was merely commenting on the content of the video. If you thought the clip was brilliant, good for you! If you will, please share how you applied these principles to real life? Apart from the last one, they seem a bit abstract to me. (Almost as if you need to buy a course from Tim Ferriss to have them broken down and explained...)
"Almost as if you need to buy a course from Tim Ferriss to have them broken down and explained". I see this almost everywhere now. Vague content that plays to your emotions with a click-bait title which ends with a link to signing up to an exclusive program that is conveniently on sale for a limited period.
I play chess like this even before coming to this video because when playing against droidfish I realized I could trade but had trouble planning throughout the middle and endgame and would get crushed. but one day I said no more I will trap them so I started cutting off they're exit squares and playing solid defense next thing you know I'm doing OK not winning but OK so anyone watching this know this is a great philosophy kudos sir for sharing
This is very helpful advice. Although very general advice it's also very true and applies across the board. Have the end game in mind and make space for creativity
"If ["slack in the system"] is not on your calendar, then it's not real. You need to put it there and defend it, just like you would anything else." Words of advice on how to exist in a reality paradigm with external locus of control, and an unhealed-narcissistic conscious perception of self and reality. Great plan. :/
I can attest to this, some of the first dishes I ever made were meringue pies from scratch including the crust and biscuits. Also learning out to read cookbooks, I can now cook anything. Also I worked for a startup that should have been "the next facebook" but it was ran by someone who had no real end goal in mind and was constantly changing things and finally the backers left.
Eggs were what I started with, great blank canvas, can cook in multiple fashions with many techniques and even when you screw up it's usually still edible. That was 12 years ago. Now I'm no chef but I can cook a nice variety of things and would say I have an adequate skill set in the kitchen for a home cook, certainly better off than my friends who can only put together those 5 recipes they pull from a book every year. Principles and concepts really matter so much, learn a couple basic principles and cooking really just becomes a question of connecting the dots.
Time blocked out. Yes! Just because I’m present doesn’t mean I’m available. Interrrupting could wreck my thoughts as they’re a house of cards till set. Goes for reading, thinking, writing. Similar to my working out, have a home gym, doesn’t mean I’m “home.” Slack in the system, yes! But also not necessarily engaged time. Sid Meier’s A Memoir notes has creativity happened when he left for vacation. Stephen Budiansky’s Blackett’s War notes that at the Cavendish they closed early and intermingled socially which both got you away from problems and got you hearing heterogeneous crossings. Nimitz played tennis during the war; Marshall road horses. Creativity requires some focused time but also usually benefits from time away after the focused work time. Can’t always be on the clock.
To be fair, he's not the first chess GM to learn "backwards", JR Capablanca learned the endgame first. To this day, nearly every GM tries to be as good as Capablanca in liquidation and endgame technique.
We should note that endgame in mind or backward planning works great for ordered situations. Such is obvious in the Clear hence you don’t need to consciously look to the end while such is critical to planning in the Complicated. But in the Complex, such doesn’t work so well. Better instead to look to more positive adjacent possibles moving toward more acceptable while realizing there are many possible good “ends” that can be had though likely you won’t get to a specified “best” endgame. Need to combine Snowden’s Cynefin here with Sinek’s Infinite Game. Micro to Macro is great though not everything scales up nor is everything fractal. In the case of national economies, we see micro never builds to macro while applying lessons and concepts of micro actually wrecks macro - see Keynes and Krugman. Endgame in mind tends to get you working sequentially or serially though sometimes you need to be looking at multiple parallels. Consider how we look to risk mitigation though apply such to both risk and opportunity (recognizing means limits may restrict you from chasing too many opportunities though you can still learn from seeing various potentials potentially enabling a change in focus/effort). In this, you could still say risk mitigation is still somewhat end in mind as you’re looking to multiple possible ends while trying to reduce certain chances and/or blunt effects should they occur.
Another thought here: hearing a lot of uses by successful persons yet these ideas won’t guarantee success. Plenty of failed efforts came from persons also aware of and using these techniques. We should be studying those who failed too not just looking to those who succeeded. Veritasium Role of Luck has a good talk here. So does Snowden regarding mere statistical chances with various market spaces having voids that will be filled by some “successes” while others fail simply for inadequate space in the market.
Someone please reply so I may confirm my understanding or redefine it. When Tim was talking about starting with the end game, that's essentially learning the basics with a complex idea? Such as by following the most complex recipe you learn other fundamental skills rather than just one or two when starting with a basic recipe?
I think that way of teaching chess isn't way off than what most teachers would use. What happens is that it isolates more the logic elements, with less pieces, less problems to consider. Focus on the more basic, intrinsic patterns, rather than larger, contextual, patterns of openings and mid-game. I guess most chess instructors don't teach much of chess openings until the student is quite proficient already. But I guess it makes for a better story to say one has learnt in a different, special way.
Whether it's true or not i'd like to try implementing these and see for myself. Any music producers thought about how to start from the endgame and work backwards? Start from the mastering phase?? Or maybe practice arranging first before starting from a blank slate.
Would this translate? In the Chess case, starting at the endgame really means you’re starting small and building up. Yes, you’re building backwards, but you’re also small to big. In the Chess case, you’re also building pattern recognition which is different than creating new patterns. I don’t know music, do these apply? If so, it certainly isn’t from starting at mastery. Does “mastering phase” have a different meaning? Is your last sentence a statement or question? It reads more like small to big. Another thought here, Chess is closed. Music is open. What’s the impact in that?
There's a lot of wisdom in this. Look at how many great philosophers did their work in isolation, and praised it; Nietzsche, Marx, Seneca, Schopenhauer... You need to find a home within yourself, and defend it.
It appears rather that time in relation to position is the takeaway so as to say the early “moves” are not guided by early outcome formulas that are unlikely scripted as such at advanced levels of play.
emptyskullify Not quite... Understanding the micro/macro model involves making distinctions between the elements that operate on a smaller level and those that work on the larger level (and also understanding how those elements are interrelated). Or in other words, to distinguish between the details and the overarching concept/structure (as you put it). To "see the forest for the trees" but while still being able to see the trees. Let's use preparing for a marathon as an example. The micro would entail proper breathing technique and proper running form. The macro would entail pacing strategies and other forms of preparation like dieting and a workout schedule. In understanding these different elements, you'll reach a point of understanding: "Oh. Breathing correctly is important because it will more easily allow me to sustain a certain pace throughout the entire marathon." You achieve understanding by clearly understanding the distinct elements and making the connections. Induction is a form of reasoning that derives larger assumptions from already given premises (building an overarching concept out of the details as you say)--to make predictions based off of info that is generally true and already known. Induction would say: "You know, if you diet this way and work out this way, you might be able to win the marathon." Micro/macro is a tool to understand the system. Induction is a tool to arrive at a certain end.
I'm not an expert on coding but maybe start with debugging code written by other people who know what they are doing. I imagine it would force you to understand the principles of what works and what doesn't work in the end, thereby also giving you a good understanding of how to get there.
okay for one thing stay on point and finish the thought before you go into the next one because you keep bouncing around from point-to-point without finishing the last point before you go to the next point
Love how the bog standard way of teaching chess is presented as revolutionary and new. Also love how that method is generalized to other areas. Especially when Chess is all about how the particulars trump the general in every case. I guess it it is all in he buzzwords.
ehtlentils you are consuming in the morning are also..wait for it...CARBS which will prevent you from going into ketosis. and as you know the body does not and cannot burn fat until it burns off all carbohydrate stores... which it cannot do if you are feeding it lentils every morning. Some biochemistry and cell biology would have been a good background to have.
Josh Waitzkin's book "The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance" was received poorly by the scientific community because it was significantly devoid of data and research. Now BigThink wants to 1 view from us to listen about how this guy is someone we should listen to to form our own (how our brain works) models of human information processing? BigThink, what are you doing? Industry is having a slick little influence on academia
Videos like this fail to separate correlation from causation. They say X is amazing. X does something. You should the same thing to become as amazing as X. For all we know this something can be a coreelative with no causation and everybody's wasting time. Also, it's unlikely IMO that these people are good because of just one or two things they do.
That's the impression I got as well. It seems to me that Tim Ferriss is superimposing his ideas on these examples and implying there is a common causal principle at work, but when you take apart any of these stories, it doesn't seem to be true.
Studying the endgame is an absolute necessity and is brutally hard. I doubt he's (TF) studied it for himself so you can fault him in that way but the advice is still essential
I agree, never enter a game if you don't exactly know how it can end, and all the rules... That said I mostly retain the "empty space" concept from this video, something other well known people have been recommending as a method for creation...
Uhm, I get the rationale behind all of this but how is it different from the common and perhaps fundamenal stragegy of setting goals and doing actions in favour of them?
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I learned something similar for writing books. So, you also start with the end and then you let your characters tell how they ended up here. It's like a switch in your mind how to think about things.
Nice.
1. Have an end in mind at the beginning
2. Get back to what you enjoy doing most
3. Create slack time to learn uninterruptedly
'Learning How to Learn' is what everyone should be focusing on. Barbara Oakley has a great free Course on Coursera on this subject and she also has written a very beneficial book titled 'A Mind for Numbers' If I remember correctly. Tim always delivers valuable content.
what does she has to do with anything?
bruno3833 She delivers the same ideas in a more detailed way. She is an excellent resource to learn about effective learning.
bruno3833 She delivers the same ideas in a more detailed way. She is an excellent resource to learn about effective learning.
prisoneroftech Thank you for sharing that info. I'm going to go look her up. I really appreciate helpful comments.
Thank you @prisoneroftech for introducing Barbara Oakley and her course in course, I just came back to the video to send you a thank you note,cheers
When my dad taught me how to play chess, in the 1950s, he started with the end game, I.e., with just a queen and king against his lone king, and with other combination. In the 1950s.
i was taught in a similar way in the 1980s. and i have seen it more often. I have no idea how old it is. but it works
The strategic, goal pursuing mind of Tim Ferris reminds me of a Sith Lord.
He's just a genius. You guys are jelly.
INTJ ??
This video impacted my life in a great and positive way. Thank you for this. You are making a difference in the world.
Amen. As an artist, professionally and personally, I find my time under assault constantly.
"Me time" has to occur to allow for creation. Amen.
Thanks, man. Good to hear someone else say it too.
True. I've done this. Not on the calendar yet, but my natural laziness and self-satisfaction, helps me create creative time, in chunks. I'm self-employed, so that makes it easier. I'm a musician, and all of this applies.
This is probably the most value I've ever gotten out of a UA-cam Video. Thank you do much!
Nikonas Davis What did you get? (Serious question.)
Mark Dvoretzki, arguably the world's most recognized chess trainer, who sadly passed away last year, also set the focus on endgames when teaching chess.
I learned that the "end game" also applies to writing books, mostly fiction. What is the ending? What is the plot building up to? I like to start here, then build the beginning, then put the middle together to connect the dots. This allows me to read the end of the story, go back to the beginning and add in some epic foreshadowing, then slowly build back up to the ending. Sadly I learned this over years upon years of research, so I had to rewrite my book several times, because when I read the original story again, I saw it was crap. .-.
Please provide this advice to George R. R. Martin. ...We are still waiting. lol
This is a beautiful video. The advice Mr. Ferriss gives is so succinct, immediately actionable and invaluable; t’s just breathtaking.
For the first part, being put in tough spaces in life will teach you some of this even if you don't want to learn that way, but it is a seemingly vital method. Most of us practice it and agree with it. Sometimes it's the only way to learn. Although it's not so nice to be taught that way without a fair warning.
I know a guy that tried this technique. He was going to become a chef . He would shit his pants all the time. "End game"
Tim Ferriss is my favourite book salesmen. He makes books about what interests him and compiles the knowledge he "found" in a nice manageable book.
If you want to learn more about what he's talking about in regards to Josh Waitzkin I advise you to read Josh's book, The Art of Learning. He explains how he transferred his knowledge of learning chess into learning and mastering Jiu-jitsu. It's good, but I don't think you can transfer everything he says in every aspect of your life. Like everything, it has to be taken with a grain of salt. Maybe you can get an insight but trying to force the concepts from that book into everything, like startups (cause it's trendy and makes people want to buy my book) is wrong. Josh shares his experience and what you take out of it is up to you, but there's never a magic bullet that will make you happy and successful.
As soon as I saw the title of this video, I knew Josh Waitzkin would be mentioned. I highly recommend everybody pick up a copy of his book, "The Art of Learning".
It's just a shame that guys like this come along, grab a juicy idea from another book and market it like it's the holy grail of success.
I loved those interviews with Josh. As Tim was talking my memory recalled different snippets like how Marcelo (?) was not concerned with his opponents watching him train before a competition. Also the importance of learning principles that can be applied to many domains. Interestingly I also recalled where I was when tuned in.
What's with all the namedropping and "jokes"? Here's a recap without the sales talk:
1. Figure out the end situation of your process and how you wish for it to play out
2. Figure out the central principles that apply to that situation and apply them to the bigger picture by reverse-engineering the whole process
3. Remember to have at least one uninterrupted 3-5 hour block of time for creative work each week.
How this is supposed to be a formula for "mastery", I don't know. Robert Greene wrote a brilliant book about mastery, called "Mastery".
Thank you so much. I watched the first 3 minutes of the video and got little to none information on the main topic that was discussed. Thanks for TL/DW.
Ankhbayr Ts No problem... I think this was a sales pitch for Tim Ferriss more than anything. I'd say that kind of advice doesn't go very far unless he explains *how* to "learn the macro from the micro". Either that, or I'm just too dumb.
Right, how dare he joke? We need the strategies....NOW!!!!!! GIVE ME THE STRATEGIES SO I CAN BE HAPPY!!!!! STOP JOKING!!! DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUN OR A GAME?!...
+dnanidref1 Thanks for your satirical input. There's nothing wrong with joking of course - and I'm already happy, thank you - but for the whole duration of the video Ferriss is dropping stale jokes and big names *instead* of talking about the supposed subject of the video. So, I was merely commenting on the content of the video.
If you thought the clip was brilliant, good for you! If you will, please share how you applied these principles to real life? Apart from the last one, they seem a bit abstract to me. (Almost as if you need to buy a course from Tim Ferriss to have them broken down and explained...)
"Almost as if you need to buy a course from Tim Ferriss to have them broken down and explained".
I see this almost everywhere now. Vague content that plays to your emotions with a click-bait title which ends with a link to signing up to an exclusive program that is conveniently on sale for a limited period.
I play chess like this even before coming to this video because when playing against droidfish I realized I could trade but had trouble planning throughout the middle and endgame and would get crushed. but one day I said no more I will trap them so I started cutting off they're exit squares and playing solid defense next thing you know I'm doing OK not winning but OK so anyone watching this know this is a great philosophy kudos sir for sharing
For more on the subject of learning how to learn I highly reccomend Josh Waitzkins own book: The Art of Learning
Thank you for the alternative point of view. Awesome.
Very SOUND and LIFECHANGING advice!! Thank you
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More of this sort of thing pls
Yes please
Great tips. I wish I could communicate more effectively like Tim, he’s got such a knack for it.
This is very helpful advice. Although very general advice it's also very true and applies across the board. Have the end game in mind and make space for creativity
this channel is da bomb
Nice talk.
This is not a new idea, but it's a good one and it remains relevant.
great speech... I like the way Tim explains it.... but I like his books more...
Effective ideas for novices, explained with captivating enough sophistry. I'll buying what Tim is selling!
Excellent video. “BUT.” - Tim Ferriss
Oh i needed this..
This is very useful! I’m wondering how working moms manage this kind of time blocking, morning pages, etc
This is another essential video, well-explained and straight to the point. Thanks a ton for videos like this.. they truly help! :)
where were other videos?
Great advice, thanks for this. really helpful and definitely going to start implementing the morning creative space.
Thank you
this is awesome
Searching for Bobby Fischer is one of my favorite movies of all time
Create empty space
Learning the macro from micro
Beginning with the end in mind
"If ["slack in the system"] is not on your calendar, then it's not real. You need to put it there and defend it, just like you would anything else."
Words of advice on how to exist in a reality paradigm with external locus of control, and an unhealed-narcissistic conscious perception of self and reality.
Great plan. :/
amazing...The genius that is tim ferris
I can attest to this, some of the first dishes I ever made were meringue pies from scratch including the crust and biscuits. Also learning out to read cookbooks, I can now cook anything. Also I worked for a startup that should have been "the next facebook" but it was ran by someone who had no real end goal in mind and was constantly changing things and finally the backers left.
Eggs were what I started with, great blank canvas, can cook in multiple fashions with many techniques and even when you screw up it's usually still edible. That was 12 years ago. Now I'm no chef but I can cook a nice variety of things and would say I have an adequate skill set in the kitchen for a home cook, certainly better off than my friends who can only put together those 5 recipes they pull from a book every year. Principles and concepts really matter so much, learn a couple basic principles and cooking really just becomes a question of connecting the dots.
your first example was great, your second one: not so much.
Love u tim❤️🇮🇳
This is great advice!
Subtitling errors:
0:35 chest = chess
1:17 mines = minds
9:45 not = naught
Time blocked out. Yes! Just because I’m present doesn’t mean I’m available. Interrrupting could wreck my thoughts as they’re a house of cards till set. Goes for reading, thinking, writing. Similar to my working out, have a home gym, doesn’t mean I’m “home.” Slack in the system, yes! But also not necessarily engaged time. Sid Meier’s A Memoir notes has creativity happened when he left for vacation. Stephen Budiansky’s Blackett’s War notes that at the Cavendish they closed early and intermingled socially which both got you away from problems and got you hearing heterogeneous crossings. Nimitz played tennis during the war; Marshall road horses. Creativity requires some focused time but also usually benefits from time away after the focused work time. Can’t always be on the clock.
Excellent
To be fair, he's not the first chess GM to learn "backwards", JR Capablanca learned the endgame first. To this day, nearly every GM tries to be as good as Capablanca in liquidation and endgame technique.
We should note that endgame in mind or backward planning works great for ordered situations. Such is obvious in the Clear hence you don’t need to consciously look to the end while such is critical to planning in the Complicated. But in the Complex, such doesn’t work so well. Better instead to look to more positive adjacent possibles moving toward more acceptable while realizing there are many possible good “ends” that can be had though likely you won’t get to a specified “best” endgame. Need to combine Snowden’s Cynefin here with Sinek’s Infinite Game. Micro to Macro is great though not everything scales up nor is everything fractal. In the case of national economies, we see micro never builds to macro while applying lessons and concepts of micro actually wrecks macro - see Keynes and Krugman. Endgame in mind tends to get you working sequentially or serially though sometimes you need to be looking at multiple parallels. Consider how we look to risk mitigation though apply such to both risk and opportunity (recognizing means limits may restrict you from chasing too many opportunities though you can still learn from seeing various potentials potentially enabling a change in focus/effort). In this, you could still say risk mitigation is still somewhat end in mind as you’re looking to multiple possible ends while trying to reduce certain chances and/or blunt effects should they occur.
Another thought here: hearing a lot of uses by successful persons yet these ideas won’t guarantee success. Plenty of failed efforts came from persons also aware of and using these techniques. We should be studying those who failed too not just looking to those who succeeded. Veritasium Role of Luck has a good talk here. So does Snowden regarding mere statistical chances with various market spaces having voids that will be filled by some “successes” while others fail simply for inadequate space in the market.
Thanks Tim 🙏
Someone please reply so I may confirm my understanding or redefine it. When Tim was talking about starting with the end game, that's essentially learning the basics with a complex idea? Such as by following the most complex recipe you learn other fundamental skills rather than just one or two when starting with a basic recipe?
this man is truly amazing
I think that way of teaching chess isn't way off than what most teachers would use. What happens is that it isolates more the logic elements, with less pieces, less problems to consider. Focus on the more basic, intrinsic patterns, rather than larger, contextual, patterns of openings and mid-game. I guess most chess instructors don't teach much of chess openings until the student is quite proficient already. But I guess it makes for a better story to say one has learnt in a different, special way.
Whether it's true or not i'd like to try implementing these and see for myself. Any music producers thought about how to start from the endgame and work backwards? Start from the mastering phase?? Or maybe practice arranging first before starting from a blank slate.
Would this translate? In the Chess case, starting at the endgame really means you’re starting small and building up. Yes, you’re building backwards, but you’re also small to big. In the Chess case, you’re also building pattern recognition which is different than creating new patterns. I don’t know music, do these apply? If so, it certainly isn’t from starting at mastery. Does “mastering phase” have a different meaning? Is your last sentence a statement or question? It reads more like small to big. Another thought here, Chess is closed. Music is open. What’s the impact in that?
Love this thank you !
awesome thoughts there. thanks a lot.
welcome to basic game design
good talk... good talk
There's a lot of wisdom in this. Look at how many great philosophers did their work in isolation, and praised it; Nietzsche, Marx, Seneca, Schopenhauer... You need to find a home within yourself, and defend it.
golf is a great analogy
It appears rather that time in relation to position is the takeaway so as to say the early “moves” are not guided by early outcome formulas that are unlikely scripted as such at advanced levels of play.
Is the micro-to-macro model another way of saying induction? As in you sort of build an over arching concept/structure out of the details
That's the concept.
emptyskullify Not quite... Understanding the micro/macro model involves making distinctions between the elements that operate on a smaller level and those that work on the larger level (and also understanding how those elements are interrelated). Or in other words, to distinguish between the details and the overarching concept/structure (as you put it). To "see the forest for the trees" but while still being able to see the trees.
Let's use preparing for a marathon as an example. The micro would entail proper breathing technique and proper running form. The macro would entail pacing strategies and other forms of preparation like dieting and a workout schedule. In understanding these different elements, you'll reach a point of understanding: "Oh. Breathing correctly is important because it will more easily allow me to sustain a certain pace throughout the entire marathon." You achieve understanding by clearly understanding the distinct elements and making the connections.
Induction is a form of reasoning that derives larger assumptions from already given premises (building an overarching concept out of the details as you say)--to make predictions based off of info that is generally true and already known. Induction would say: "You know, if you diet this way and work out this way, you might be able to win the marathon."
Micro/macro is a tool to understand the system. Induction is a tool to arrive at a certain end.
I had to use captions to figure out "Zugzwang" :) not quite the way we would pronounce it here in Germany.
This is the most important video on UA-cam.
Good business plans begin with exit strategies.
If anyone understands this concept well can you explain how it can be applied to learning a new coding language?
I'm not an expert on coding but maybe start with debugging code written by other people who know what they are doing. I imagine it would force you to understand the principles of what works and what doesn't work in the end, thereby also giving you a good understanding of how to get there.
awesome!!
Damn now I just might get his book now.
THIS IS TRUTH ‼️
How can i apply these principles to master mathematics?
Tim Ferriss, best talker I heard in a long while
"marcelo garcia´s first black belt".....you got my attention
what were the titles of all the books referenced in this video? for example, "for our body" etc.
TheTraverser Four Hour Body
Big Think is starting to give much better insights than Ted talks. Ted talks are starting to become a bit more fluffy. Good job guys
GET ON WITH IT
Pretty interesting! :)
Ya that's a good recipe for anxiety
Kool thnx
okay for one thing stay on point and finish the thought before you go into the next one because you keep bouncing around from point-to-point without finishing the last point before you go to the next point
Know the rules, play the game.
I will love to hear that bjj concepts from josh
I could listen to Ferriss talk all day.
Love how the bog standard way of teaching chess is presented as revolutionary and new. Also love how that method is generalized to other areas. Especially when Chess is all about how the particulars trump the general in every case. I guess it it is all in he buzzwords.
Absolutely, I cosign the fuck out of that shit!!!! Micro-distractions are the worst because you don't think of it as a distraction, but they add up
ehtlentils you are consuming in the morning are also..wait for it...CARBS which will prevent you from going into ketosis. and as you know the body does not and cannot burn fat until it burns off all carbohydrate stores... which it cannot do if you are feeding it lentils every morning. Some biochemistry and cell biology would have been a good background to have.
This is the tip all chess players get. It's just much more boring than learning opening traps :p
yayyyy development group..
Video starts at 2:00
Josh Waitzkin's book "The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance" was received poorly by the scientific community because it was significantly devoid of data and research. Now BigThink wants to 1 view from us to listen about how this guy is someone we should listen to to form our own (how our brain works) models of human information processing?
BigThink, what are you doing?
Industry is having a slick little influence on academia
can anyone give me some names of great books that can help with productivity?
The ONE Thing book by David Keller and Jay Papasan
The One Thing, Essentialism and the compound effect. 3 books in the whole year instead of dabbling here and there. Read and internalize it. Good luck.
DARK TREE look up Napoleon Hill's collection of books
can someone please explain what he's talking about in simpler terms, less words please. I'm confused.
...Make Time for YOURSELF tate
...Peace;n God Bless. ....
Dexter Lacy figure out how to do things on principle /small scale before you imitate bigger things [recepys a whole chess game]
Step 4. Name drop.
Step 5. Mention Navy SEALs for no apparent reason.
First principle thinking
Videos like this fail to separate correlation from causation.
They say X is amazing. X does something. You should the same thing to become as amazing as X.
For all we know this something can be a coreelative with no causation and everybody's wasting time.
Also, it's unlikely IMO that these people are good because of just one or two things they do.
Very true! Thx for the insight.
That's the impression I got as well. It seems to me that Tim Ferriss is superimposing his ideas on these examples and implying there is a common causal principle at work, but when you take apart any of these stories, it doesn't seem to be true.
Studying the endgame is an absolute necessity and is brutally hard. I doubt he's (TF) studied it for himself so you can fault him in that way but the advice is still essential
I agree, never enter a game if you don't exactly know how it can end, and all the rules...
That said I mostly retain the "empty space" concept from this video, something other well known people have been recommending as a method for creation...
I feel like you missed the entire conversation.
Uhm, I get the rationale behind all of this but how is it different from the common and perhaps fundamenal stragegy of setting goals and doing actions in favour of them?
Maker here, let's create
I don't believe this. How good you'll be at something is determined by how much time you put in, that's it, no gimmicks.
Not if you're training/learning/trying the wrong things. Sure, the correlation will almost always be there, but not all things are equal.
As soon as he mentioned creating space, I thought BJJ.
once a week to block out 5 hrs quite space? that's not enough! Everyday we need 4-5 hrs. of empty space and creativity!