Thread by @sbuehler

🔔Reminder

world famous experts can totally miss the point & unintentionally use their status to proliferate pseudo-correct info as they assume their frameworks are 💯 correct

or

“The value of writing things down we hear or read CAN BE overstated”

example and 🧵👇🏼

As I understand their point:

The motor aspects of writing, when coupled with the real-time granular activity of listening and while “trying to understand” alchemizes learning in powerful ways

Me:

Yes absolutely true

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Also me:

would you recommend this method to “write what you hear” b/c “the value cannot be overstated” to

- a opera singer
- a juggler
- person w no arms
- person who can’t write

No? must be out of luck then b/c of this magical “writing” that humans invented recently

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In other words

ITs tHe BoDy nOt tHE wRiTiNg

that is this newly discovered “secret sauce” for #learning

So of course researchers will want to pinpoint this effect with writing and listening

And of course their results will be very positive

And of course they will claim “it’s writing things for everyone that’s smart” for 000’s and 000’s to now believe, quote & prescribe

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(ugh numbering wrong)

But that’s the problem

The scientific precision over generalizes the impact of the specific conditions being measured

And in this case misses the larger mechanism that better explains the cause

w scientist getting “hits” on the resulting #distortion

Closing w saying these problems are reduced or eliminated with dialogue across disciplines

Which is also why I value playful experts who can hold their expertise spaciously

otherwise their egos spin out b/c their knowledge status gets questioned by an “unworthy” other

/end

cc @rascality same point, other places