Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy. The uplifting news, though, is that many talented people don't have such natural wiring - but… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Babies have not yet chunked anything. They aren't doing any high level thinking. All they're doing is sucking in all the data they experience in the world around them, and remembering it, raw. It's basically what extreme savants have happen… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience -… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky had chunked… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Some of what we're learning suggests a balance between exposing children to new things, yet giving them a chance to repeatedly experience something they… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Eventually, we need to have computers that work differently from the way they do today and have for the past 60-plus years. We're capturing… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Our brains seem to have the power to do one or the other - record and remember every detail, or chunk it to higher… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Chunking is the ability of the brain to learn from data you take in, without having to go back and access or think about… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through chunks at… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have married a… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
