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Rote Is The Way To Go

Richard K. Yu
Ascent Publication

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People see results.

I care about results. You care about results. Even reclusive groups of monks deep the mountains care about results.

You would think that it’s pretty intuitive and obvious to produce results, but why do people still fail?

It’s because they do not accept rote strategies as the optimal strategy.

For me, rote has always gotten me results*. 100%. No exceptions.

*for realistic goals

The Scenario

When I was in first year of middle school, I had this teacher who was very specific — to put it nicely — about instructing people not to look down when typing on the keyboard.

She also told us not to use the backspace key.

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Now I don’t know about you but I always had trouble positioning my fingers in exactly the correct places.

I also made mistakes even while looking down at the keyboard which sounds ridiculous, but it’s true.

Just imagine a sixth grader trying to locate the keys and still typing incorrectly and you’ll get the basic picture of what I was doing…

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