How Experts Actually Think

Before the models: what expertise physically is. Why experience alone plateaus, why skills refuse to transfer between domains, and the one exception this whole track is built on. Grounded in verified research, not folklore.

Labs in this module

The Pattern Library in Your Head - What expertise physically is: a library of chunks built by practice at the edge of ability. The scrambled-board result, why experience alone
The Transfer Rule - Why skills refuse to move between domains (far transfer is rare, chunks are domain-keyed), the one exception the research allows (schema ind