Range
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"It is a truism to say that Kepler thought outside the box. But what he really did, whenever he was stuck, was to think entirely outside the domain."
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"He had to use analogies."
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"The current world is not so kind; it requires thinking that cannot fall back on previous experience."
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"There is often no entrenched interest fighting on the side of range, or of knowledge that must be slowly acquired—the kind that helps you match yourself to the right challenge in the first place."
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"The feeling of learning, it turns out, is based on before-your-eyes progress, while deep learning is not."
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"Desirable difficulties like testing and spacing make knowledge stick. It becomes durable. Desirable difficulties like making connections and interleaving make knowledge flexible, useful for problems that never appeared in training."
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"Learning deeply means learning slowly. The cult of the head start fails the learners it seeks to serve."
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"From a technological standpoint, even in 1989, the Game Boy was laughable."
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"We learn who we are in practice, not in theory."
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Introduction
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Chapter summary
This outline follows the Riverhead Books hardcover edition (28 May 2019; ISBN 978-0-7352-1448-4).[1][2][3]
🎾 Introduction – Roger vs. Tiger.
🏁 1 – The Cult of the Head Start.
🌍 2 – How the Wicked World Was Made.
➖ 3 – When Less of the Same Is More.
⚡ 4 – Learning, Fast and Slow.
🧭 5 – Thinking Outside Experience.
🪨 6 – The Trouble with Too Much Grit.
🪞 7 – Flirting with Your Possible Selves.
🛰 8 – The Outsider Advantage.
🕹 9 – Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology.
🎓 10 – Fooled by Expertise.
🧯 11 – Learning to Drop Your Familiar Tools.
🎨 12 – Deliberate Amateurs.
🚀 Conclusion – Expanding Your Range.
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