From one piece The Tim Ferriss Show #412: Josh Waitzkin on Beginner’s Mind, Self-Actualization, and Advice from Your Future Self (transcript) 8 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Where accurate feedback is scarce, as in investing, progress depends on creating feedback loopsTheir words
I would argue that a lot of what defines the learning curve of someone in a field like investing where accurate feedback loops are few and far between, it’s how creative you are in manifesting them.
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We can also cultivate the ability to look through the frame but also see the frame.
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The best teacher to imagine is one's own self decades in the future, who knows one most deeplyTheir words
If my goal is unobstructed self-expression or self-actualization within an art, then the person who’s teaching me should be the person who knows me most deeply. And that’s my person 20 years from now.
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It’s very interesting to take our assumptions and examine them, flip them upside down, rip them apart.
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Coming to an art late is a disadvantage but also frees a learner from insiders' assumptionsTheir words
And you’re right, I think it’s a disadvantage in a lot of ways that we’re coming in it so late. But it’s also a wonderful advantage because we’re not socialized by any of the assumptions that a lifetime surfer would make.
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So I think to answer your question, conceptual learning has been—when you learn a technique, you’re learning one thing, when you’re learning a principle that embodies a technique, you might be learning a thousand things.
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I mean, embracing looking absurd in certain moments is a very interesting hack to what others might not be taking advantage of in the learning process.
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I think of learning as unobstructed self-expression. So friction is a form of obstruction.