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Badass: Making Users Awesome
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Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra
January 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
294 pages
7h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills Perceptual Exposure
128
The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills Perceptual Exposure
Experts practiced better
The second attribute of those who became experts is this:
they were exposed to high quantity, high quality
examples of expertise.
Where you nd deep expertise, you nd a person who was
surrounded by expertise. The more you watch (or listen) to
expert examples, the better you can become. The less exposure
you have to experts or results of expert work, the less likely
you are to develop expert skills.
What we think:
What’s actually true:
1.
Experts were around better
2.
His parents are pro musicians, he
obviously inherited his talent
His parents are pro musicians,
so he was surrounded by
musicians from an early age
129
The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills Perceptual Exposure
Simply being exposed to examples of
expertise doesn’t build expertise unless
the exposure meets specic criteria
The kind of “magical” (but not really magical because
it’s just how brains work) exposure that produces
expertise could happen by chance.
But we don’t want to leave it up to chance.
...still ...
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