This week, we're joined by Nick Salles! Nick is a black belt under Mikey Musumeci and co-founder of Movement Art Jiu-Jitsu. In this episode, Nick discusses epistemic humility: a scientific philosophy reminding us that our knowledge is always incomplete. Topics include: democratic learning environments, creating conditions for exploration, constraints-led training, recoverable vs. unrecoverable errors, gym culture, and the limits of AI in skill acquisition.

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Mental models discussed in this episode:

• Silver Bullet Fallacy
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/silver-bullet-fallacy
  
  
• Growth From Discomfort
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/growth-from-discomfort
  
  
• Zone of Proximal Development
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/zone-of-proximal-development
  
  
• Reframing
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/reframing
  
  
• Self-Organization
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/self-organization
  
  
• Recoverable vs. Unrecoverable Errors
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/recoverable-vs-unrecoverable-errors
  
  
• Discipline Equals Freedom
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/discipline-equals-freedom
  
  
• Effortful Retrieval
  https://bjjmentalmodels.com/effortful-retrieval
  
  
  

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