Baby Tortoises Love Faces, and That’s a Big Deal for Science

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🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Learn how deliberate practice makes perfect, what the New England Vampire Panic is, and how baby tortoises are attracted to faces from birth.

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Practice Won't Make Perfect, But Deliberate Practice Might by Ashley Hamer

Scott Barry Kaufman. (2014, July 15). Practice Alone Does Not Make Perfect, Studies Find. Scientific American Blog Network. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/practice-alone-does-not-make-perfect-studies-find/
The Making of an Expert. (2007, July). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2007/07/the-making-of-an-expert
Anders Ericsson, K. (2016, April 10). Malcolm Gladwell got us wrong: Our research was key to the 10,000-hour rule, but here’s what got oversimplified. Salon; Salon.com. https://www.salon.com/2016/04/10/malcolm_gladwell_got_us_wrong_our_research_was_key_to_the_10000_hour_rule_but_heres_what_got_oversimplified/
Anderson, J. (2017, March 2). How to make your kid good at anything, according to Anders Ericsson, an expert on peak performance and originator of the 10,000-hour rule. Quartz; Quartz. https://qz.com/915646/how-to-make-your-kid-good-at-anything-according-to-anders-ericsson-an-expert-on-peak-performance-and-originator-of-the-10000-hour-rule/

After the Salem Witch Trials, There Was the New England Vampire Panic by Reuben Westmaas

Original episode: https://www.curiositydaily.com/exercising-for-different-body-types-new-england-va/

Baby tortoises are attracted to faces from birth, which means faces have been important for a long time by Grant Currin

Tortoise hatchlings are attracted to faces from birth. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-09/qmuo-tha091120.php
Versace, E., Damini, S., & Stancher, G. (2020). Early preference for face-like stimuli in solitary species as revealed by tortoise hatchlings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 202011453. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011453117

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.4	I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.4	And I'm Natalia Reagan.
0:08.7	Today you'll learn about how deliberate practice makes perfect,
0:12.1	the tragic story of the New England vampire
0:14.4	panic, and how baby tortoises love faces and what that means for us.
0:19.0	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:21.0	As many teachers have said, practice doesn't make perfect.
0:26.0	Perfect practice makes perfect.
0:29.0	In other words, hours spent at the piano or in the batting cages aren't worth much unless you're smart about it.
0:35.0	Your practice doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be deliberate.
0:39.9	That's the lesson from performance expert Kay Anders Erikson, whose research into deliberate practice
0:45.3	can help kids and adults for that matter get more out of their practice sessions.
0:50.3	Erickson's 1993 study was the basis for the 10,000-hour rule, the idea that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become world class in any field.
1:00.0	It was made popular in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outlier's.
1:03.5	But by focusing on the hours, Ericsson says Gladwell missed the point.
1:08.2	It's not about the quantity of practice, but the quality.
1:11.7	So what is deliberate practice? and how do you do it?
1:15.2	You could say that the difference between practice and deliberate practice comes down to your comfort level.
1:20.8	Regular practice is fun. You do what you enjoy for a handful of hours a week and hopefully get good at it.
1:27.0	Deliberate practice requires spending lots of time outside of your comfort zone.
1:32.0	Working at the things you're lousy at and accepting criticism
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