Tuesday, February 15, 2011

champions sitting behind your shoulder (words from masters)

"Imagine a training program for traders

in which there is daily observation

of leading traders making decisions,

frequent interaction with those traders

to understand what they are doing and why,

and supervision of students' trading decisions by those traders.

It would be like having world-class poker champions

sitting behind your shoulder as you play,

offering immediate observations and coaching.

Expertise development that normally might require many years of effort

could now occur in a fraction of that time.

That is the vision.

The key is recognizing that

it is the structure--and not just the content--of a learning experience

that accounts for its success.

Most learning efforts fail

because there are too few cycles of performance-feedback-goal setting-corrective effort per unit of time

and no clear curricular progression guiding the content of those cycles.

The core concept is that,

whether you are a poker player, trader, or something else,

you can become much better at what you do

by creating more and better learning cycles.

For the real champions, nothing less will suffice."

- Dr.Brett Steenbarger

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