Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

Learn It Like an Expert

You should feel you’re in a better position to take control of your own learning experiences now.

In this chapter, we’ve looked at the value of playing to facilitate learning and the importance of actively embedding failure as an essential part of practice. We saw the important—and by now familiar—lessons from the inner game and the tricks your brain can play on you, for better or worse.

Don’t forget that as you gain experience, you’ll continue to transition through the stages of the Dreyfus model. Your ongoing experience will steadily reshape your views, and you’ll find yourself reinterpreting past experiences in the light of new knowledge and growing mental models.

As I noted in ​Meet Your Cognitive Biases​, every ...