Deadly Arnold Ep. 05: "Fluency isn't Mastery in the world of non-fiction books."

Published: Feb. 17, 2016, 11:55 a.m.

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This is part 2 of of a multi-part podcasting series that your host Josh liston is putting together around the issues he can see in his own voracious reading habit incl. shortfalls he can see in his own \\u201cGoodreads Approved\\u201d reading list from 2015 \\u2013 which incl. around 107 non-fiction books read.

In this episode Josh start by reading from the following short original-piece, and then finishes up with a segment of audio from an past podcast episode where Josh first discovered the idea of \\u201cFluency vs Mastery\\u201d in reading non-fiction \\u2013 from the book \\u201cMake It Stick\\u201d by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel.

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FLUENCY vs MASTERY (the reading)
\\u201cI recently re-listened to an episode of a podcast I recorded a while back around the idea of \\u201cFluency not being the same as Mastery\\u201dand although in that particular discussion I was referring to the reading styles of post-grad university students, I started thinking WOW, this applies to my reading style in general. That sometimes I feel that because I understand the words on a page, the examples and explorations used on those same pages, that I actually understand the concepts as well as the creator of those works and/or professionals in the same fields on inquiry.

It\\u2019s just not true. And I know it\\u2019s not true, because certain elements of my learning in 2015 (take the advanced mechanics of personal finance literature) that I feel I understand front-to-back when presented on the page, I can\\u2019t even explain the basics of to the most important people in life \\u2013 whether they be family and friends, or workmates and colleagues.

So, I\\u2019m mostly fluent in the language of this literary field, and comfortable reading and thinking about the topic, but my understanding is only reading-fluency-deep, and I\\u2019m yet to fully convert those learnings into deeper and more lasting knowledge.

What does that mean? I\\u2019m not 100% sure, but it\\u2019s definitely given me a push to go out and find some low-risk yet challenging methods of testing myself in the world beyond the paper pages.\\u201d
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