{"id":3480,"date":"2015-01-04T09:41:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2015-05-13T19:14:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T02:14:35","slug":"playing-by-their-rules-you-only-win-their-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2015\/01\/playing-by-their-rules-you-only-win-their-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"playing by their rules you only win their prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love what Sal Khan is doing, with his Khan academy because i love learning.<\/p>\n<p>He goes on and on about mastery a the goal.<\/p>\n<p>And yet I am fining in my life that mastery is not as important as I thought. Mastery can take the place of the courage to begin and create.<\/p>\n<p>Mastery comes.<\/p>\n<p>My PMP studies put it this way: Progressively Elaborated.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t all learning progressively elaborated?<\/p>\n<p>Malcom Gladwell in&nbsp;<em>Outliers<\/em> talked about the diminishing return of good grades or high IQ. Once you&#8217;ve reached the threshold of enough, the rest is a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>And in fact&#8230;Lingering to master my multiplication tables would be the biggest waste of time ever. Experiencing new things and trying a new area would be far more fruitful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love what Sal Khan is doing, with his Khan academy because i love learning. He goes on and on about mastery a the goal. And yet I am fining in my life that mastery is not as important as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2015\/01\/playing-by-their-rules-you-only-win-their-prizes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3714,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/3714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}