The studies in the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance describe the path to mastery as: (1) Deliberative Practice (2) Time spent at Deliberative Practice (3) Assistance from a mentor. Deliberative practice can be broken down to: (1) Identifying a long-term outcome (2) Breaking down the skills that lead to that outcome into its […]
Tag: psychology
Straddling the fence: the challenge and rewards of the practitioner-scholar
here is a snippet from the author’s preface to the CIA’s Psychology of Intelligence Analysis. It is an excellent free resource from our CIA. He captures for me the essence of the challenge of being the practitioner scholar: being the transmission gearbox between the world of rigorous, focused, research-oriented scholarship and the broad, immediate world […]
Obama’s genius in selecting Clinton as Secretary of State
Obama’s true brilliance is revealed in his choice of HRC for SecState. Clintoons MUST report their secretive list of contributors to the shadowy library, the modern technique for laundering money to public servants. It’s revealed today that $500M has been shoveled at Bubba Inc from foreign interests, and the Clintons will never be able to […]
Efficient markets: Being vs Becoming
There is a world of difference, all you need really, in the difference between these 2 statements: the market IS efficient and the market becomes efficient. It’s the difference between a state of being and a state of becoming (a state of action). A market moving towards efficient price levels is a market in motion, […]
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it” (Y. Berra)
Professor Roubini is the new “it” guy for economists, a pretty interesting character. he says the following, which is full of win. The government finds itself in the position of trying to coax people back into the same behaviors that they were engaged in before, so that all the people who earned their livelihood on supporting […]
Profitable ETF Trading techniques: Understanding the importance of behavioral finance
We know that people pride themselves on their rationality and analytical skills. This is very evident in traders who invest a lot of psychological energy into their systems and personal discipline. And yet it is also very clear that psychology is extraordinarily evident in financial decisions. Time and again ,psychological pressures will over-rule rational analysis […]
The journey to wellness: asking for help is the first step
Most people who seek help dealing with emotional problems find relief, recovery, and healing. They don’t forget what they’ve been through, but they learn ways to make sense of their experience so that it doesn’t control their lives. More is known now than ever before about how to help people deal with the complicated feelings […]
The journey of recovery: overcoming obstacles
Most people want to make changes to better themselves. Sometime these actions are in pursuit of a higher goal, but many other times, more challenging too, are the efforts to simply regain the peace of mind and inner balance we once knew before a time of stress and trauma. People making life changes often face […]