Skill acquisition requires repetition of small building blocks—there are no shortcuts to practice, only shortcuts in the tools.

25:27got to do the repetitions to put it in your brain um you know just because we have access to it on the >> computer. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, it's really about people putting in a little bit of work. And one thing that I really love is the concept that if [snorts] you just take any given day in your life and multiply that by a thousand, that's kind of what your life

25:48looks like. So, if you do five chess puzzles a day, multiply that by a thousand, you've done 5,000 chess puzzles. You're going to be much better. Right now, if you want to do a 100 puzzles a day, multiply that by a thousand, right? Or play 10 chess games a day or do yoga every day for 10,000 years. It's not 10,000 days. It or a thousand days. It's not the actual

26:13individual one thing that you do on one day, but it's your habits that really compound over time. You can put that into any field, right? Whether you know you do one sketch a day or you, you know, go for one small run every day. And it's the same in in in any field, right? if you if you do research into any topic. Um, and that's one thing that

26:33I do think AI is so great at is like you can literally get into, you know, whatever AI program you're using and you can start researching something and it can walk you through and it can help you get exposure to ideas, refine ideas, um, you know, get it can you can walk through and have these conversations and access to like walking into a professor's office and, you know,

26:55starting to ask questions, but you get it in your pocket all the time. And of course there's issues with biases and with like it tells you what you want to hear and it like overinflates your ego and there's all these problems with it. But honestly for people who use it well like you can deep dive into subjects and learn and train like at a tremendous pace. >> You um have this incredible data set

27:16with chess.com of humans like learning millions of people at every rating making mistakes and improving. Y >> what can you tell us about how humans acquire expertise or you know how to how to get them up that ramp faster? >> Fortunately and unfortunately it's actually quite again quite an easy answer. >> Oh no. [laughter] >> Yeah. It's just repetition of like the small building blocks >> and so it is doing puzzles, it is