Dickie's Digest - Vermont, ODESZA, and Exponential Learning
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Friends, I’ve spent the last few days honing my admittedly poor but steadily improving snowboarding skills. What’s great about my current skill level is that I can notice an improvement after every single run, which creates a very satisfying and enjoyable feedback loop. This period of exponential improvement that occurs early on while learning a new topic or skill is something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently. We’re all quite familiar with what comes after this initial learning phase— a bit of frustration as our improvement slows and we begin to understand just how little we know and how far we have to go. Wouldn’t it then make sense to spend a lot of our time becoming proficient at a lot of different things, spending as much time in this very satisfying initial learning phase? But at the same time, overcoming the frustrating phase that follows is the crux of becoming exceptional (versus just proficient) at anything we do. This trade-off is something I’m exploring in an essay that I’ll link to in the future. If you have any thoughts on this idea, definitely shoot them my way.
Dickie's Digest - Vermont, ODESZA, and Exponential Learning
Dickie's Digest - Vermont, ODESZA, and…
Dickie's Digest - Vermont, ODESZA, and Exponential Learning
Friends, I’ve spent the last few days honing my admittedly poor but steadily improving snowboarding skills. What’s great about my current skill level is that I can notice an improvement after every single run, which creates a very satisfying and enjoyable feedback loop. This period of exponential improvement that occurs early on while learning a new topic or skill is something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently. We’re all quite familiar with what comes after this initial learning phase— a bit of frustration as our improvement slows and we begin to understand just how little we know and how far we have to go. Wouldn’t it then make sense to spend a lot of our time becoming proficient at a lot of different things, spending as much time in this very satisfying initial learning phase? But at the same time, overcoming the frustrating phase that follows is the crux of becoming exceptional (versus just proficient) at anything we do. This trade-off is something I’m exploring in an essay that I’ll link to in the future. If you have any thoughts on this idea, definitely shoot them my way.