It turned out he was learning to become a London taxi driver; he was learning was they call, " the knowledge.". It takes between 2 and 4 years to learn the 320 routes (they call them runs) required to pass the tests. The guy I was chatting to said the first 20 runs seem like a jumble but when you learn the next set of 20 patterns begin to emerge as one run partially coincides with another. It took me a little while to work out what was happening. MORE >>

From a remarkably young age Franklin understood the importance of practice. But that drilled, repetitive practice of hitting the same shot over and over again. It was the perfect model to learn with to improve his writing. Again he made a comparison, made corrections and learned by doing. I get a little tired of leaders who hear about the value of storytelling and then tell me they don’t have the time to learn how to do it. MORE >>

Book Reviews Books Life learning Creativity Deliberate Practice FIRST reading reflection thinkingI enjoy reading, so like many people I have set a goal for myself to read at least 50 books a year for the last couple of years. I read 45 last year, you can see my list on GoodReads. As I was getting ready to publicly commit to another year of 50-in-52, though, I realized that I’m not really ready to move on from the books I read in 2011 2010. MORE >>

Consider the following, a passage that I wrote comparing two different authors’ views on the effect and value of video games: To Prensky, video games are a passion that can lead to positive learning and skills… For the Bruners, video games are an obsession that lead to destroyed lives. autism Deliberate Practice Life Mastery parenting passion acceptance Asperger's Syndrome awareness DeliberatePractice MORE >>

PKM is a discipline that requires practice. A recent use for PKM is in supporting members of the Hearing First learning community: “There is a solution for personal learning in the Digital Age: Personal Knowledge Mastery (or PKM). By incorporating PKM into our new age behavior, we’ll be able to accomplish the goals we have to improve ourselves and our listening and spoken language practice. Mastery comes afterwards, through deliberate practice. MORE >>