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Learn faster with this trick from Pokémon Go and Cognitive Science

Yaphi Berhanu on October 04, 2017

Reduce the distance between milestones, and you'll go much farther. That's what I learned from a seasonal update to Pokémon Go's reward systems. ...
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Harshad Sharma

Thank you for writing this!

I learned this 'trick' for achieving longer milestones from my motorcycle riding and car driving experiences, pretty much the same as your observation in Pokémon Go: if I focused on the fact that I had another 800km to drive, it felt daunting. However I realised that if I targeted the next big town somewhere under 100km, I could easily do those 100km 8 times over :D

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Yaphi Berhanu

Glad you liked it!

One of my favorite things about this is that it's a pattern that works for a lot of things.

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Darrell Washington

Ironically I started to learn HTML5 canvas not even a week ago. This post came right on time. I was close to jumping into to big of a “canvas,” that would keep me from learning anything. Thanks I will make my projects smaller from now on.

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Yaphi Berhanu

Glad the timing worked out!

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damian

This is one of the side-effects I get from TDD. Write the smallest working pieces possible until you have a big thing!

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Yaphi Berhanu

Great point! It definitely makes a big project less daunting.

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Darrell Washington

This is also why I love coding. It allows you to see life and all the things that comes with it, as a sum of patterns.