The 4 things it takes to be an expert

(Summary from this video by Veritasium).

Takeaways

• 5:00 Make sure that you have a feedback on how well you do (loss function).

• 6:47 There has to be real patterns in the field for you to master. If the environment is essentially random, you can’t expect to do better than the expectation [mean].

• 11:23 Feedback has to be on time for you to observe the gradient towards making you better.

• 13:50 Unless you struggle, you can’t improve. Once things start becoming easy for you, try to raise the bar by challenging yourself towards harder tasks.