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How to Overcome Plateaus - Learn How To Learn

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For long-term learning endeavors (chess, BJJ, etc) you’re going to encounter plateaus. These can stall progress by weeks or even years. A great way to break through plateaus is to improve fundamentals. Either improve ones you suck at, or find new ones you’re not aware of and get good at them. This article focuses on the latter: overcome plateaus by getting large improvements from finding (and then training) core concepts you’re currently overlooking. There is also a brief section at the bottom about increasing temperature, a technique to break out of local optima to overcome plateaus. For any concept, the fundamentals are the subconcepts make up large fractions of it. They’re the 20% of subconcepts that make up 80% of the useful knowledge. That’s why fundamentals are taught to beginners. Generally, learning them provides the fastest increases in competency. This comes from Amdahl’s law in computer science. Amdahl’s Law: Improvement to a system’s subcomponent can improve the whole syste

you, hopefully For long-term learning endeavors (chess, BJJ, etc) you’re going to encounter plateaus. These can stall progress by weeks or even years. A great way to break through plateaus is to improve fundamentals. Either improve ones you suck at, or find new ones you’re not aware of and get good at them. This article focuses on the latter: overcome plateaus by getting large improvements from finding (and then training) core concepts you’re currently overlooking. There is also a brief section at the bottom about increasing temperature, a technique to break out of local opti

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