Context

An online course promised to teach you a new skill "in just 10 minutes a day" with guaranteed results.

Common Sense Advice

Treat time-to-mastery claims with skepticism — complexity resists compression.

Why

Deep skills require deliberate practice, feedback loops, and spaced repetition over months or years. Courses that promise speed are often optimizing for purchase, not learning.

Go Deeper

  • "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" by Anders Ericsson
  • Learning How to Learn — Coursera (Barbara Oakley)

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