“spaced training” vs “massed training”
Posted on October 5th, 2009 by MichaelSOT members are already familiar with the spaced training method used by SOT.
SPACED TRAINING
Spaced training is an effective way to produce skills because it allows for repetition over time. This is the training strategy that is used by the military, the music conservatory, the aviation school and other institutions where virtuosity is the training goal, not just knowledge.
MASSED TRAINING
Many business and academic institutions use massed training which tries to cram training into one or two sessions. Massed training is a far less effective strategy for retaining knowledge or developing skills. It is completely ineffective for achieving virtuosity.
REPETITION
Repetition became unfashionable as a teaching strategy in education about 30 years ago. However, at SOT, we have evolved our own training method over that time to see what delivers better results. Repetition is a powerful strategy in the human brain because the brain is a patterning system and the architecture of patterns is repetition.
The brain thrives on repetition not distraction. One of the problems with multi-tasking is that the brain is distracted from acquiring the necessary depth of patterning to cement knowledge into skill.
We send out daily email lessons with small amounts of information to learn–spaced out over time. These lessons arrive at the desk of the trainee day by day … by … day by day.
We encourage the strategy of repetition in SOT and recommend X10 as a powerful tool for repetition. We call it TENPOWER. ••• You can click here for our lesson on Tenpower. …
DFQs
Each lesson has a DFQ (Daily Feedback Question) and the member can not only post their own answer to the DFQ but can also review the answers of other SOT members. This SOT method of reinforcement and repetition has proven to be a very effective one which produces measureable results.
••• Click here for a recent study by McGill University from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) of McGill University which shows the differences between spaced training (distributed over time) and massed training (at very short intervals).
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:00 am
WOW! The SOT teaching and the spaced training vs massed training is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! What a liberating learning experience for me, to understand the depth of how I learn and what I had learned in my life and have the SOT skill to switch from cvs2bvs it has change my life and my way of seeing the world in a Bright way. I am so much looking forward to learn the SOT every single day and dedicate myself to learn and understand more in depth of X10 TENPOWER. Is there any Conference/Lecture/Workshop for SOT/X10/TENPOWER any where? PLEASE if anyone have any information of those events I would REALLY appreciate to contact me and let me know. Thanks X10.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I discovered that repetition of subject matter has been a powerful too for effective learning, though I have been practicing this principle unnoticed. Thanks.
October 10th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Repetition10x more than ones rivals creates 10x better results.
That is the power of 10x.
October 10th, 2009 at 1:45 am
It would be useful to me if SOT sometimes addressed issues outside the business sphere. I work in local government, for example, coordinating the affordable housing program for a large metropolitan county in the US. Discussions of increasing my sales 10X or making my marketing more effective are not entirely relevant, although they are interesting. Is there anyone here besides me who is interested in the SOT’s methods and goals whose work is not mainly about making money? Has anyone else figured out ways to relate SOT’s methods to, say, public policy?