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Expert Mind Article - Link
Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier In Response To: Expert Mind Article - Link (Stick)
Date: Monday, 31 December 2007, at 1:16 a.m.
when he showed that the study of Latin, for instance, did not improve command of English
I do not believe this period.
I have no idea about this study, but I am fairly convinced that skills are not nearly as transferable as a lot of people seem to think they are. Chess players, on average, are no smarter than your average guy from a random population, no better at spatial reasoning, or memorizing poetry, etc. They are much better at chess, however. The smart ones use their transferable skills to do other things.
Chess memory was thus shown to be even more specific than it had seemed, being tuned not merely to the game itself but to typical chess positions
Really? Rofl.. really? I think the article was definitely a good article but when I see things in print that are a study and it boils down to common sense, makes me want to throw a Kit Kat.
I don't know, I've always thought that this was pretty interesting. Chess super-GMs did no better than rank amateurs when trying to remember random positions. Some of the GMs became physically ill.
the scratch pad of the mind--in a 1956 paper entitled "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
I, too, thought this was something everyone knew or learned. I don't know if this is the actual limit or what we become accustomed to, but the first time I ever thought about it was the length of phone numbers.
This is one of the famous papers in psych literature. It seems to be more or less "true", but the nature of short-term and long-term memory is still a subject of fair confusion.
The preponderance of psychological evidence indicates that experts are made, not born
I believe they are born.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that they are made? ;)
Sure, there's nobody who climbed to the top without putting in their man hours but not everyone who put in the hours they put in would wind up in the same place they did. Again, it's their love of what they're doing that propelled them to the top.
Sure, but why would someone put in the hours if they didn't love what they were doing? And love of what they're doing isn't something they're born with (unless you think you were born a backgammon lover?).
I believe that desire is by far the most critical factor in success; however, desire is also something that can be cultivated and developed.
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