re: Poker & Why do some players study but never improve?
I teach engineering at a university and run into this quite a bit too. Some students approach the material with the goal of gaining a deep understanding of the underlying concepts and principles, while others only care about passing the exams.
The second group will often spend significant amounts of time doing things like memorizing the solutions to homework problems, only to fall flat on their faces when the exam problems don't look like the homework because they do not have a sufficient grasp of the concepts and they're unable to make even a marginally meaningful attempt at finding a solution.
It's not the amount of time spent studying, it's the quality of the study and the approach that is taken.
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