Quote of the Day
From Jonah Lehrer’s post about young Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen:
“When we practice properly – and this means engaging in deliberate practice – we aren’t just accumulating factual knowledge. Instead, we’re embedding our experience into our unconscious, so that even insanely complicated calculations – and Carlsen can regularly plan twenty chess moves in advance – become mostly automatic.”
As a newbie trying to teach myself Japanese, this reaffirms the adage “Perfect practice makes perfect” — not “Practice makes perfect,” which is incorrect.
Bonus quote:
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” – Neils Bohr
LINK:
The Frontal Cortex – Chess Intuition
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