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Why Too Many Hints are Bad for Improvement
How learners can find growth in self-made improvisation
We have all been tempted by the thousand ways to achieve success, grow, and boost our leadership. We have all believed in the results of adopting them.
Yet, even if these can help us on our path, they are no shortcut to permanent practice and experimentation.
According to David Epstein in Range, learning is a non-linear process. Successful learner have found improvement not by finding the easiest way, but through a struggling and never-ending path that make them face complex problems.
In this way, improvisation, critical thinking, and a wide range of cross-functional skills have become huge benefits for them. Whereas deep, focused expertise limited their abilities in one area, generalists skills have helped them gain superior flexibility in the face of adversity.
Here are some examples of these experimenters who will show you the way to self-improvisation.
Handling and Using Critical thinking
You may know psychologist James Flynn for having realized in the 80s that the IQ of Western students has been rising for a century.
