Scott Young

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174 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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Something You Should Know · How to Get Better at Anything & Why So Many People Like Tattoos - SYSK Choice · 9 May 2026 podcast

Usually you go to a class and the teacher knows more than you do.

But if you're in a situation where you are actually a better performer, the thing the coach can do is they are able to monitor and observe what you're doing, whereas you have to actually do it.

So there's this concept in psychology called working memory, which is this

basically this bottleneck where all your thoughts and experiences have to go through.

And you can only keep a very limited amount of information in it.

And so I think in a, you know, in an athletic context, that's clearly a case, you know, if you're swinging a golf club, you don't know exactly what the kinematics were of your golf stroke.

You need someone who has the like high speed camera who can like, you know, diagnose your movements and be like, okay, you need to be following through a little bit more.

You need to be going a little bit slower thinking about this.

And so a coach can,

You know, that's why they're so prevalent in these elite professions is because they can step outside and see what you're doing to provide feedback that would be impossible for you to get on your own.

I think there's probably some amount of ability that is in this kind of like basic intelligence.

There's a lot of research showing that, you know, there's this G factor of intelligence.

Some people's brains maybe just have a little bit more working memory capacity that makes them better at handling some things.

Maybe they have, you know, certain circuitry in their brain that makes it better for them to learn social skills or better for them to learn physical skills.

But I mean, it really is a mystery.

I don't think that we've figured out, oh, okay, this is why this person is better at this because, you know, it's this exact thing going on in their head.

Well, I think that's true.

I think that there's definitely some hypothetical ceiling to how good you get at things, but I think this problem that I was talking about with the 10,000-hour rule, which is that 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.

So, you know, taking the driving the car example, what my brain is doing as I'm repeatedly driving is not like just steadily getting better at driving at the maximum rate, but trying to automate the little things that I'm already doing so that they require less and less effort.

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