Comments on: Growing Skill: How It Feels

By: djcoyle

djcoyle — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:32:45 +0000

Thanks, Jasper — I really appreciate the feedback. Based on it, we’ll look at a redesign — because I don’t think you’re alone here.

By: William

William — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:53:15 +0000

Like the other commenters, I had the opposite outcome from your prediction. Pictures were easy, 100% recall in repeated trials.

Words were difficult, below 50% recall. I was unable to form a mental picture of a word before it disappeared, so it was never committed to memory.

By: Nicki

Nicki — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:48:11 +0000

The opposite thing happened for me. In the first game I got all the pictures I could either completely or partially see, and in the second game I got all of the words that were complete and only one pair that wasn’t.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:15:47 +0000

I started off a bit shakily, then got the hang of deep practicing and got 10 correct!

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:03:13 +0000

Ditto for volunteering my brain too! I have had awful study habits but always find a way to make things work for me. Interesting point is I did better on the testing without the partial breakups and blank spaces on the word rememberance.

By: RV

RV — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:33:36 +0000

Recall is something that has always been something of a problem for me. My short term memory is really good, which is one reason why I think I as well as I did in this (9 correct) test.

Also, on the first screen I looked at the pictures first and then I made a switch and decided to look at the words themselves. After makeing that decision, I didn’t look at the pictures with the intent of memorizing them. I did notice the blanks, which confused me a bit at first. But I don;t think I payed my attention to them.

So, I’m not sure I did any “deep practice” here.

I am reading the book. I enjoyed the deep practice section. The “ingnition” part I’m still thinking about. In fact I ended up skipping quite a bit of it (which might explain why I didn’t get it…just didn’t resonate with me. I will go back and re-read that section). I am very intrigued by the “Master Coaching” section.

Overall, I really like the book and it does explain a number of my own short comings in the way I studied when I was in school and college.

Daniel, if you ever do another book and need a person, or people to study who have not studied “well” in school, but who have landed some pretty good jobs, please do contact me. I’m always baffled when I see where I am today and look back at what I did when I was in school.

Cheers!

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:10:37 +0000

Actually it worked the other way around for me. I got a lot of things right where the pictures werefully shown. Then again, I’m not like most people

But yes, it is true. When you create an image, you retain the information better.