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Originally Posted by LaProfessora
There's an important concept known as "unconscious competence" which was popularized in the poker literature by Jared Tendler in MGOP. This book was reviewed by your colleague, Mason Malmuth, and he gave it an 8/10, which is a very good review.
It might surprise you to know that unconscious competence arises from fully myelinated neural networks in the brain which occur through a process of deliberate practice and the process of full myelination has been shown to take 10,000 hours. Important note: deliberate practice is not the same as seat time - it is an effortful process.
If you support the idea of unconscious competence, then you tacitly agree with the 10,000 hour rule because it is the only way that unconscious competence is developed. You can't have one without the other - clinical, scientific research has shown this many times.
Dr. Cardner
I also want to address the Tendler book where unconscious competence is addressed in many spots. Specifically, I gave the book a good review because I thought he understood variance and how it actually applies to poker reasonably well. But now that I have gone through his book again in much more detail, the rating of 8 is way too high.
I do feel that Tendler does in spots hit upon the right things relative to poker psychology, but a great deal of his work seems to be derived from the field of sports psychology which has very little to do with poker since things like speed, timing, and coordination are not important poker concepts. So I do not recommend his first book anymore (and I have not read his second book so will not comment on it).
Best wishes,
Mason