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The 4-Hour Chef: Apply the frameworks from Tim Ferriss' book on learning how to learn
The 4-Hour Chef: Apply the frameworks from Tim Ferriss' book on learning how to learn
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Reversing

Try going through the steps to learning your skill in reverse order.

✅ What steps would you traditionally expect to take to learn
baseball
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and in what order? Enter those steps below, and try to generate at least 10.


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✅ Now, click this Reverse! button
Reverse!
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You'll see your first five steps reordered below. 👇
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Contemplate this new, reversed order — does the reversal reveal a better, more effective, or more efficient way to learn
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? In
The 4-Hour Chef
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, Tim talks about how Josh Waitzkin became an international chess champion by learning the endgames first. Do you have to begin the way most people expect to begin? And even if starting with the last step wouldn't make for a more effective learning experience, could it just make it more fun and therefore more sustainable?

✅ What thoughts occur to you about the best order in which to learn the fundamentals of
baseball
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now that you've reversed the traditional, expected order? Record those thoughts below.

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