{"id":4895,"date":"2024-10-06T18:18:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T18:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/why-dont-we-learn-new-skills\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:29:35","slug":"why-dont-we-learn-new-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/why-dont-we-learn-new-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7248758529325465601>Why don&#8217;t we learn new skills?<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why don&#8217;t we learn new skills?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reflecting on this question recently after reading a couple posts on how people learn most effectively. 1:1 tutoring seems to be orders of magnitude more effective, as does developing the physical skill of training one&#8217;s intuition.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be that information was the limiting factor in mastering a skill. Even just forty years ago, if you wanted to reach world-class mastery, you had to move yourself to live near a master and apprentice with them e.g. Juilliard for music, Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy, Culinary Institute of America, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But now the information is freely available. For almost any skill you want to learn, there&#8217;s a Reddit forum, hundreds of YouTube videos, and thousands of how-to posts. In this world of abundance, we no longer have the excuse of &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to do that&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>I think the real barrier is the feeling of being bad at something. It&#8217;s uncomfortable to be incompetent. We would rather say &#8220;I don&#8217;t do that&#8221; than &#8220;I&#8217;m doing that badly&#8221;. But if we embrace the failure involved in being a beginner, we can develop competence far quicker than ever before because the information is available. <\/p>\n<p>More thoughts and related articles in this week&#8217;s newsletter at https:\/\/lnkd.in\/gAMaXxSP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why don&#8217;t we learn new skills? I&#8217;ve been reflecting on this question recently after reading a couple posts on how people learn most effectively. 1:1 tutoring seems to be orders of magnitude more effective, as does developing the physical skill of training one&#8217;s intuition. It used to be that information was the limiting factor in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}