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The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills Perceptual Exposure
Good Perceptual Exposure exercises don’t
explain. They create a context that lets the
learner’s brain “discover” the pattern
With photographic composition, it’s not really the mechanics
we’re after–it’s the aesthetics. You’ve probably seen photos from
people who were taught the Rule of Thirds, but who never
developed a “feel” for composition.
But if we create an experience that helps their brain “discover”
composition patterns from looking at high quality, varied
examples, we move from just mechanics to something more...
something deeper, richer, and unexplainable.
Perceptual
Knowledge
If we
teach
the
mechanics they
might only get this
But if we let their
brain
“discover” it, they get
this AND this
+
?
Deeper compositional
patterns, “feel”, etc.
For areas where perceptual learning can be used, “they were
taught it” is not as powerful as “they discovered it.”
Knowledge you
can talk about:
(facts, procedures,
etc.)