CDate:: [[05-08-2024]] Status:: #🌱 Tags:: Links:: # How to design drills for your learning According to Scott Young (2019) in his book [[Ultralearning]] there are five main ways you can design drills: 1. Time slicing: isolating a moment in time for the skill and specifically practicing that. Like a musician practicing a part of their piece. 2. Cognitive components: find a way to drill only one component of a cognitive skill when in practice all would be used at the same time. For example, memorizing just vocabulary for a language when you would need vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation to write. 3. Copy cat: copying the parts of a skill from someone else or yourself so you can focus just on the skills you do want to practice. For example, editing works you have written in the past so you can focus on editing instead of ideating, researching, outlining or something else. 4. Magnifying glass: spend more time on one component of a skill than you would otherwise. For example, spending ten times the amount you usually would on research for an article. 5. Prerequisite chaining: putting yourself in a scenario which requires way more skill than you have, identifying the prerequisite skills you need to build, and then going back and drilling those individual skills.