[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":53},["ShallowReactive",2],{"mental-model-investment-in-loss-en":3},{"title":4,"description":5,"summary":6,"sections":7,"visual":28,"related":35,"sources":48},"Investment in Loss","Explore Josh Waitzkin's learning principle of accepting temporary setbacks when changing an approach, with controlled martial arts applications.","Developing a better approach may temporarily reduce your results. Invest in that cost only when it creates specific learning you can use.",[8,14,20],{"heading":9,"kind":10,"paragraphs":11},"The old answer keeps winning. What is it hiding?","idea",[12,13],"You want to learn a new escape, but every difficult attempt ends with the powerful bridge you already trust. It saves the round and takes away the chance to practise the new response. Investment in Loss accepts a temporary drop in performance when that is part of changing your approach. Josh Waitzkin discusses the principle in The Art of Learning; his foundation's teaching materials connect it with letting go of familiar approaches to develop understanding.","A loss can mean an unsuccessful attempt, reduced fluency or giving up the reassuring feeling of being competent. The investment is worthwhile when you learn something relevant and can adjust. Repeated failure without observation, support or change is a cost without an identified return.",{"heading":15,"kind":16,"paragraphs":17},"Change the response you always rescue yourself with","practice",[18,19],"A grappler usually escapes a position by using a powerful bridge. They want to learn to recover a frame and move at an appropriate angle. In a controlled positional round, they agree to practise the new response rather than immediately reverting to the familiar one. They may escape less often at first. The partner supplies manageable resistance and resets when the learning opportunity is gone.","The aim is not to remain trapped or delay tapping. It is to make the new response available without the old habit taking over every attempt. Ask what failed: did the frame never form, did the angle disappear, or did the learner wait too long? A specific observation turns the setback into material for the next repetition.",{"heading":21,"kind":22,"paragraphs":23},"Budget the loss and collect the lesson","experiment",[24,25,26,27],"Choose an approach you want to change and define a short practice period for it. Agree on the starting situation, intensity and stopping conditions. Before beginning, say what you expect to improve and which temporary performance cost you will accept. After each round, choose one adjustment. Record relevant attempts rather than only escapes or points.","After several sessions, test whether the new approach is more available in ordinary practice. If it remains unsuccessful, seek feedback or reduce the problem instead of treating endless loss as commitment. You may need a missing prerequisite, a different cue or a technique better suited to the situation.","Training handicaps removes an advantage to expose other possibilities. Investment in Loss concerns accepting the resulting short term cost when learning demands change. Resulting fallacy warns against judging the decision solely by that immediate outcome. Deliberate practice gives the experiment a target and feedback.","A coach should make the purpose clear so temporary regression does not become a judgment of the athlete's worth. There is no virtue in avoidable injury, humiliation or a partner who overwhelms every attempt. Keep the investment controlled, inspect what it buys and return the learning to a situation where it can become useful.",{"description":29,"labels":30},"A familiar approach gives way to a temporary dip, followed by adjustment and a test of new capability.",[31,32,33,34],"Familiar success","Temporary cost","Learn and adjust","New capability",[36,39,42,45],{"id":37,"reason":38},"training-handicaps","Remove a familiar advantage to give another response room to develop.",{"id":40,"reason":41},"resulting-fallacy","Losing now does not automatically make the learning choice poor.",{"id":43,"reason":44},"deliberate-practice","A clear target and feedback help you find what the temporary cost bought.",{"id":46,"reason":47},"growth-from-discomfort","Learning in public may mean looking less capable for a while.",[49],{"title":50,"url":51,"note":52},"The Art of Learning Project: Student Guide, Chapter 10","https:\u002F\u002Ftheartoflearningproject.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2010\u002F10\u002FStudentGuide.pdf","Official foundation resource for Waitzkin's Investment in Loss principle; examples here are independently written.",1791220424583]