Scott Young
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174 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Scott Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As long as it was cost effective.
Yeah, it can't be too expensive.
Exactly.
If they can see the return, yep, farmers will be there.
There's definitely some hypothetical ceiling to how good you get at things, but I think most people plateau well below their ultimate attainable ability because of this process of the brain to take skills that you repeatedly do and try to make them automatic and low effort.
Also, why you might want to start humming right now.
Well, I mean, all those things are right.
And I don't want to say that, you know, you don't need that.
This isn't some secret flip that you don't need those things.
But I think sometimes we can spend a lot of time doing something and not get much better at it.
And sometimes you can work on something for a short time and make progress rapidly.
And so I think there's a real disconnect sometimes between our ideas of how we make improvement and a lot of the research, a lot of the things we've discovered about how learning works and about how skill acquisition works.
I think there's three factors that matter for being able to get better at anything.
The first is being able to learn from other people.
Most of what we know comes from other people.
And so if you are not able to learn from other people, if you're having obstacles,
to figuring out what it is that experts know, that's going to slow your progress.
The second factor is practice and not just any kind of practice.
There's a lot of interesting sort of quirks about how our brain works that oftentimes we can spend a lot of time doing something, a lot of time practicing something and not make that much improvement.
And the third factor is feedback, being able to get quick and immediate feedback on what you're doing right, what you're doing wrong, and how you can correct that.
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