Trevor Reagan interviewed an Italian professor who found that five minutes of reflection after a task boosted performance by about 20% compared to continued practice. The benefit works best for people still learning. Pause between activities to process what went well and what didn't.
Good morning, everyone. Here is your moment of yes for, uh, for Wednesday, August 9th. Happy Wednesday, everybody. So, uh, I was just listening to a, a podcast, um, for the second time, uh, with Trevor Reagan. Uh, Trevor, uh, great guy. He and I did an event together years ago. Um, he, uh, he was a basketball player at Duke. Actually, he got cut as, as a walk-on at Duke. And has since sort of dedicated his work to research around performance and mindset. Puts a lot of great content out there. And he did an episode recently on the power of reflection. And he ends up interviewing this associate professor, this Italian woman at a university in Italy who has done some amazing work on the power of reflection. And different studies that they have done, that they've conducted, and obviously that they have researched as well about when you take, when you take different people, you give them a task, and then you give them the opportunity to either reflect on that task or to just keep practicing that task with that time, which group does better? And in more of a 20% improvement, the group that took 5 minutes to reflect instead of 5 minutes to continually— into— continue practicing, uh, did that much better. And research after research after research, the, the place where, uh, reflection and practice— that there's not a major difference is when someone's at an expert level. So them reflecting at that level compared to them practicing more at that level. But anytime we find ourselves in a growth Acquiring a skill or working on something that we're not an expert level, which is for me everything, the power of reflection is super valuable. But when I just, I just think about it on a day-to-day basis, from how easy it is for us to get sort of caught in this endless loop throughout the day of activity to activity to activity to activity without taking those moments of pause to reflect. So that we can actually process what we just went through, the good and the bad, and then move on to the next thing and be present for that, and then process that, and then move on to the next thing. And I think that for me is, is the power of reflection, is just taking a moment after everything that we do, whether it's the drive after the activity or 60 seconds in between Zoom calls, for us to sit, reflect back, Take the nuggets, the good and the bad, so that we can process them and then move forward to the next one. So your, uh, what are these called? Uh, your, uh, moment of yes. Your moment of yes for today is to reflect. Reflect. Take a moment of reflection a few times today and just think about what you just did, what you can take from it, and then move forward. That's your moment of yes, everybody. Have an awesome day.
