In the intervening decades since Ericsson’s first major papers on the topic, however, neuroscientists have been exploring the physical mechanisms that drive people’s improvements on hard tasks. As the journalist Daniel Coyle surveys in his
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I like thinking about the practice of regular deep work as myelinating these pathways... useful motivator that is probably accurate from my (modest) understanding of the neuroscience.
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