I think this works well for mental activities like math or Go, but it’s much less effective for physical skills. Say you’re trying to learn tennis as an absolute beginner. If you try to learn it from someone only slightly better than you, you will inevitably learn bad/incorrect/inefficient habits when you should have just learned from the ‘master’ to start.
I think this works well for mental activities like math or Go, but it’s much less effective for physical skills. Say you’re trying to learn tennis as an absolute beginner. If you try to learn it from someone only slightly better than you, you will inevitably learn bad/incorrect/inefficient habits when you should have just learned from the ‘master’ to start.