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Making decisions against yourself

“The best decision you can make for yourself is making decisions against yourself.  It’s disciplining yourself to do the right things day in and day out, week in and week out, year in and year out.  If you pay the price, the payoff will be greater than the sacrifices you made.”- Mark Batterson (emphasis author’s)

“They go from strength to strength, till each appears before  God in Zion.”- Psalm 84:7 (NIV)

Mark Batterson concludes Chapter 8 of Win the Day as he talks about the concept of desirable difficulty.  Robert A. Bjork, who coined the term in 1994, describes desirable difficulty as a task that requires considerable effort.  Certainly, difficult tasks slow down the learning process at first.  But, such tasks yield greater long-term benefits than easy tasks.  Hence, Mark offers this formula:

Deliberate Practice + Desirable Difficulty = Durable Learning

A great way to achieve this is through stretch goals.  As a result, you go from strength to strength – little by little.  Consequently, over time your ceiling becomes your floor.  However, Pastor Batterson cautions, if you start too fast, you’ll finish slow!  Therefore, you need to pace yourself- which is the genius of kaizen.

Emil Zatopek, the greatest runner of all time, measured five foot seven and weighed 145 pounds.  In addition, he possessed little natural talent and ran with an unorthodox style.  Thus, sportswriters said he ran like a man who’d been stabbed in the heart.  Yet, in the three years prior to the 1952 Olympics, Zatopek won sixty-nine races in a row.

Furthermore, while on sentry duty, he’d run in place in his combat boots for hours.  And he often carried his wife on his back when he ran.  Also, Mark adds, “Success will not be shortchanged, and it never goes on sale.”

Finally, Mark underscores, if you want to fly the pennant, you need to fly the kite.  How?  You:

commit yourself to kaizen

embrace desirable difficulty as a gift from God

set stretch goals

make decision against yourself

define the win

Today’s question: What Bible verses support you in making decisions against yourself?  Please share.

Tomorrow’s blog: “God ideas change the course of history”

[liveandlovethequestions]

“Twenty years ago, cognitive psychologist Robert Bjork gave this phenomenon a name: ‘desirable difficulty.’ Bjork used it to describe how making learning harder can also make the information stick. For example, [Daniel] Oppenheimer coauthored a 2010 study that found that printing information in hard-to-read fonts helped students remember it later. But it’s tempting to apply the concept outside the world of education, too. A default assumption of modern life is that if technology can make something easier for us, we should use it. Desirable difficulty throws that idea into question.”

— Ruth Graham, Taking notes? Bring a pen, skip the computer

[teacherscrapbook]

'Actively engaging with material by producing outlines, creating study questions, quizzing oneself or others, is much more effective in generating long-term retention of material than exposing oneself over and over to the same material.'

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'If you introduce variability,... spacing, tests rather than restudy.., if you interleave the separate things to be learned, those all slow down the apparent learning but under most circumstances help long term retention and help transfer what you learn to new situations.'

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Benefits of interleaving over blocking.

'Your own sense of whether you've learned can be misleading...People take fluency as a measure of learning, when it's not.'

[teacherscrapbook]

'Current performance is often such an unreliable indicator of whether learning's happened. [Performance] can be a product of predictability, current cues that are present now but won't be present when we need the information later. All those things can prop up performance and make [students] improve rapidly but the learning that is the target of instruction [...] may not be happening.'

'There can be considerable learning in the absence of observable changes in performance.'

'The converse is also true, namely that there can be pretty dramatic improvements in performance with virtually no resulting learning.'

'When you introduce things like variability, spacing, reducing the feedback some, interleaving things to be learned rather than blocking the things to be learned, that appears to slow down the learning process  and poses challenges but enhances long term retention and transfer.'

Robert Bjork

Thanks to Cristina Milos on Pinterest

[betsybull]

Very interesting article on education and memory!

“People tend to try to learn in blocks,” Bjork said. “Mastering one thing before moving on to the next.”

Instead of doing that Bjork recommends interleaving. The strategy suggest that instead of spending an hour working on your tennis serve, you mix in a range of skills like backhands, volleys, overhead smashes, and footwork.

Bjork explains that successful interleaving allows you to “seat” each skill among the others. “If information is studied so that it can be interpreted in relation to other things in memory, learning is much more powerful,” he said. There’s one caveat: Make sure the mini skills you interleave are related in some higher-order way."