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Blog post—How I conduct weekly reviews with Obsidian
My weekly review process with Obsidian, highly automated and fully integrated with my daily note & project-goal workflows.
Update—I've updated my post, How I Manage Projects and Goals in Obsidian, to showcase automated progress tracking of projects & goals.
Since making this system, I've added a feature that automatically tracks your progress on goals. This is the 'auto-track' feature. Read more in the article.
Experts don't need ideal conditions to perform
Ryan Holiday wrote a fantastic piece, Practice Everything. Be Ready for Anything, in which he asks:
How good are you if you need everything to go perfectly?
Can you really call yourself an expert, a professional, if you can only perform during ideal conditions?
The skill window for expert performance is drastically lowered under perfect conditions, meaning even those with lower skill can participate at high levels during those times. However, such conditions are rarely encountered in practice.
Therefore, true expertise requires the ability to perform well even in challenging or changing circumstances.
NASCAR driver Bradley Aaron Keselowski has talked about this reality in professional racing. You may also have encountered it in your own life: running with a tailwind, swimming in calm waters, or thinking in a quiet area with no distractions.
Experts are adaptable. They are ready for change—they expect it.
Learning to embrace change is part of becoming an expert performer.
This carries over to your training—you should practice under non-ideal circumstances significantly more than under ideal circumstances. You should be ready for when 'shit hits the fan'.
Interleaved Practice & Varied Practice are ways to increase difficulty of practice, and thus making you learn faster & better.
It would certainly be easier to just get questions about a single topic on a quiz, but you'd learn less that way. It would be easier to run with a tailwind, but you cannot guarantee that on race-day.
The wind won't always be in your favor.
Experts can perform in such situations. Novices buckle. Which are you?
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Commitment is an act, not a word.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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