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The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills Perceptual Exposure
The best way to learn to spot “bad” is by learning
the underlying patterns of “good”
“play I like to music.” Is something wrong with that sentence?
What, exactly, is wrong? If English is your native language, you
don’t need to know which grammar rules were broken to
know, instantly, that it’s not right. You did not need to explicitly
learn to spot incorrect sentence construction for your brain to
recognize “This is denitely not right!”
This doesn’t mean we can’t teach using examples of bad, but
the best, safest place for that approach is long after the learner
develops strong perceptual knowledge for what’s good. Once
they’re reliable at perceiving good, they’ll automatically recognize
bad as “that which doesn’t t the pattern” (even if they can’t
explain why).
Teach people to recognize bad/wrong/errors by developing and
strengthening their recognition of good/right/correct.
What if the learner MUST be able to identify bad examples? Why
can’t the perceptual excercise be like chick sexing except instead
of identifying male vs. female they identify good vs. bad?
That photo was altered! I
don’t know how, exactly, but
something’s not right...