3 Rules of High-Velocity Learning

A couple weeks from now, when Shaun White wins his medals at the Vancouver Olympics, you'll want to remember this video. Because here we get a vivid picture of what's really beneath his unworldly skills — and it's not merely gallons of Red Bull. Rather, it's White's highly organized method of high-velocity learning — a deep-practice technique that lets him accomplish, as he calculates here, "a couple years of riding in one day."

So courtesy of Professor White, here are a few lessons that...