Psychologyspeaking topic
Expertise and chunking: chess masters can glance at a board for one second and reproduce it, but not if the pieces are placed at random. Is expertise really just seeing in bigger chunks?
— Chase and Simon, expertise and chunking
practice with this topic
Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.
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