Principles of expert knowledge

Principle 1: Experts are sensitive to patterns of meaningful information

Principle 2: Expert knowledge is highly organized in deeply integrated schemas.

Principle 3: Expert knowledge is readily accessible when needed because it contains information about when it will be useful.

(excerpted from a report “About Expert Knowledge” on Fiona McPherson PhD’s website which is based on her book The Memory Key.)

“Hey!” This is a perfect follow up to what I was getting at last month in post Simplify by delegating, part I . I was talking about beginner struggling efforts and results vs. expert ease and results. She demonstrates how the brain organizes and retrieves information on a certain subject is indeed different for beginners and experts.

As if I needed more justification to delegate!

I was curious. Who is this author and what is she about? From Dr. McPherson’s About The Memory Key page:

One of the major new understandings I myself came away with after all my reading and writing and thinking, was that we have an unreasonable expectation of our memory. It’s not enough for us that we can remember, and access quickly, a truly astonishing amount of detail, including complex images seen only briefly, words overheard only in passing … No, we pay no attention to that. What we notice are our failures.

Yet our failures are nothing compared to the amount of information we are deluged in daily.

Improving your memory involves more than mastering memory strategies. It also involves selecting the information you wish to remember.

Yes! Whether she states it of not, this woman is dedicated to simplifying!