Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Training
By type: Daily home practice Chunk it up identify the key of the chunk Repeat Increase difficulty: resistance training one perfect chunk a day precise measured slow Scenario training train in a larger unit, e.g. an attack from the enguard line. Mind training stare your star think in image close your eyes mimic it auxiliary training…
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Reading on Mindset
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The art of impossible
Impossible is always a checklist. Waitzkin believes that “the grit that matters the most is learning to be your best when you are at your worst.” The ingredients of impossible. Patterns that novices don’t recognize Anomalies or events that didn’t happen or events that violate expectations The big picture The way things work Opportunities and…
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The Slight Edge
Do the thing, and you shall have the power— Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two prevalent types of attitudes: entitled and value-driven. The formula for success is quite simple — double your rate of failure. — Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (founder of IBM) Show up Be Consistent In baseball, my theory is to strive for…
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Two articles: https://www.fs.blog/2012/10/velocity-of-skill-development Summary Problem: It’s hard to get the quantity of repetitions you need for feedback with the variety of situations you need to develop improvisation. Solution: You can tinker with the environment to force people to make faster decisions, increase the number of repetitions, and force a velocity that increases the variety or situations a player can practice. When developing…
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The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin break skills into chunks then make networks of chunks unconscious navigate a huge network of subtly programmed technical information, and the conscious mind is free to focus on certain essential details to make the decision of which chunk to pull. That way: you can “slow” down time process more information than you actually…
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Challenge the 10,000 hour rule
compound effect: (1 + resistance training) ^ routine
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Bounce 2
The hidden logic of success they were able to chunk the position of the pieces as a consequence of their long experience of trying to find the best moves in chess games. The exploitation of advance information results in the time paradox where skilled performers seem to have all the time in the world, recognition…
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Bounce
If you want to excel, 10,000 hours of training will take you much further than your natural abilities. To master new skills, keep challenging yourself and try to learn from your failures. when we try to pick up a new skill, we only work on improving our performance until a certain point. After this point,…
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Resistance training
… is the way to improve yourself. more difficult task more challenging opponent set more limit to yourself when training.
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Online Courses
Footwork: https://coachtube.com/course/fencing/fencing-footwork/415496 Saber technique: https://coachtube.com/course/fencing/training-of-champion-sabre-fencing/415489
Got any book recommendations?