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The Best Way to Learn From Other People's Experiences - Commoncog

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This question should be familiar, especially if you find yourself running a business, or investing in the markets — experience should, in principle, be the best possible teacher, which of course suggests that other people’s experiences might serve as an ok substitute. But then why study history if everything is path dependent and you’re not likely to experience the exact same things in your life? I often tell friends that I read a huge amount of business biography in order to “expand the set of patterns in my head”; their usual retort is “but then all of that is unlikely to happen again — history never repeats itself; why read business history anyway?” And they kind of have a point. It turns out that the question we’re interested in is as old as inquiry itself. In Plato’s Meno, for instance, the Athenian philosopher asks: “how can we come to know what we do not already know?” If you want a more precise formulation of that question, the one that comes up in the expertise literature goes

The Best Way to Learn From Other People's Experiences - Commoncog --> This is part of the Expertise Acceleration topic cluster. Learning Techniques , Thinking Better The Best Way to Learn From Other People's Experiences By Cedric Chin Table of Contents The thought of business school make you go ‘eww’? You’re in good company. 9,000+ investors and operators read Commoncog to sharpen their business acumen ... WITHOUT going back to school. Sign up for our newsletter and get a weekly dose of good business thinking (no BS guaranteed): Subscribe This is the first in a series of posts about learning i

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