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How to Get Better at Getting Better

The 5 models

Deliberate Practice

Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition

Four Stages of Competence

The Learning Pyramid

7 Learning Styles

Setting goals

Uber or Graph Database?

Picking what is important to you… Play to strengths? Strengthen your weaknesses? Focus on highest ROI?



Deliberate practice

Understand your goals, your aptitude, and execute custom exercises

Tailored towards advancing skill, ignores knowledge

Listen to episode 78 for a deep dive on deliberate practice.

Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition

Controversial

The optimum way to learn changes as your knowledge and skill grow

Novice

Understand the tools / philosophy

Explore ecosystem

Define learning goals

Getting started

Beginner

Training course

Buy a book

Playground project

Intermediary

Experiments

Documentation

Reading

Advanced

Teach others

Four Stages of Competence

Unconscious incompetence Don’t recognize the deficit

Often undervalues the skill Conscious Incompetence You know you’re bad 🙂

Making mistakes and learning from them is important Conscious Competence Using the skill requires attention and effort’ Unconscious Competence Skill becomes second nature

Teaching can be tough, depending on how you learn

The Learning Pyramid (aka cone of learning, or cone of experience)

Passive Teaching Methods Lecture 5% Reading 10% Audio Visual 20% Demonstration 30%

Participatory Teaching Methods 50%

Practicing by doing 75%

Teaching others 90%

Well, it’s controversial.

7 Learning Styles

Visual (spatial):You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding.

Aural (auditory-musical): You prefer using sound and music.

Verbal (linguistic): You prefer using words, both in speech and writing.

Physical (kinesthetic): You prefer using your body, hands and sense of touch.

Logical (mathematical): You prefer using logic, reasoning and systems.

Social (interpersonal): You prefer to learn in groups or with other people.

Solitary (intrapersonal): You prefer to work alone and use self-study.

Also controversial.

Resources We Like

Tip of the Week

DevTube – Find curated programming videos by topic, speaker, and popularity.

Code Sharing with Serverless Functions using NPM or Node packages.