A Simple Way to Learn Complex Skills

Sometimes we have to learn very complex skills that can’t be broken apart into more basic skills. What do we do then? 0:00 An intro to the experiment 0:21 Skills with many interdependent parts 1:00 The study that explored learning complex skills 2:33 The results 3:48 Try it out If you want to be the first to know about the courses I’m releasing, sign up here: Sign up to my email newsletter, Avoiding Folly, here: *There was a wrinkle to this study that I didn’t mention, which is that groups 2, 3, and 4 all had a different kind of display on the game for the first six sessions, which gave them slightly different information than the standard game. The idea was to support learner’s focus on part of the game, but it also meant that there’s more than one difference between the control and the other groups. The enhanced display could explain some of the difference between the control group a