Because the key to effective decision making is to build up expertise, one temptation is to develop training to teach people to think like experts. But in most settings, this can be too time-consuming and expensive. However, if we cannot teach people to think like experts, perhaps we can teach them to learn like experts. After reviewing the literature, I identified a number of ways that experts in different fields learn Klein (1997): They engage in deliberate practice, so that each opportunity for practice has a goal and evaluation criteria. They compile an extensive experience bank. They
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Important as a whole but the last note about comparisons is very interesting in itself as well. Many points are about getting more out of every experience and so is the last point.
