Glossary

Attention: Prioritizing information based on unexpected events or predetermined goals.

Begin: Step out of your comfort zone with a domain goal you have not tried before.

Bushwhacking: Survival challenges with everyday dirty treks.

Challenging: Known civil rights abuse, shots required, but food is mostly safe.

Collaborating: Considering the beliefs, feelings, and intentions of other people while solving problems together.

Comfortable: Home-like with no shots required.

Complying: Processing emotions and drives to assess risk, manage stress, and regulate action.

Dangerous: Civil war happening, health shots required, and food poisoning common.

Definition: A term defined in the glossary.

Discern: Identify a need for a change in a phase of a goal.

Domain: A specialized area of work or life.

Enable: Plan, rehearse, and get back for a new phase of a goal.

Examine: Consider one's own role and talk with a friend to identify a new phase.

Expertise: Levels of knowledge or skill in a particular domain of work or life.

Explore: Get more involved with a domain goal by trying quickly learned practices.

Feature: A defining aspect or building block of expertise: a domain, goal, phase, or step.

Focus: Prioritizing information either from either external or internal experience.

Goal: A desired result of any action learned on the way to becoming expert.

Green-term: A term listed in the glossary.

Habit formation: learning that improves the speed and accuracy of performance through repetition.

Hikable: Physically challenging and dirty walks are common.

Home-like: Safe and clean.

Hospitable: Comfortable inns and local stores that also accommodated tourists.

Improvised: Plan on the spot and change whenever you are interested.

Independent-study: Plan before you go to focus on more than one type of destination and occasionally change plans.

Indigenous: Backpack sites, Indigenous markets or living off the land

Inspire: Make discoveries or innovations that other people use.

Integrate: Systematically collect and arrange information to achieve a goal or document events.

Interact: Adapt behavior to another person or a cultural norm.

Language: Sending and receiving messages using conventional signals.

Local: Budget inns, campgrounds, and practical places for residents

Luxury: Well-known rated brands with personalized service and high-end facilities.

Map: A set of goals with the five phases each for a particular domain of work or life.

Master: Teach or mentor others in a particular goal.

Modular Principle: phases are distinguished by their onset and performance times as well as their complexity. 

Motivation: how much a phase reduces the growth rates of other phases in a goal.

Opportunity: the relative maximum sustainable usage of a phase.

Perform: Use a new phase in public.

Performance onset: the crossover point where the usage of a phase first exceeds the earlier phases.

Performing time: the span from the performance onset of a phase to the performance onset of its successor phase.

Phase: A developmental level of the practices used to achieve a goal: beginning, exploring, sustaining, mastering, or inspiring.

Phase chart: A graph of the % usage over time of the all the phases in a goal.

Planning: Synthesizing information to solve novel problems and adapt to new situations.

Problem-solving: Analyzing a situation, identifying possible actions, and selecting an alternative to reach a goal.

Process: Interpret and transform linguistic, sensory, or motor information in order to remember it or select reactions.

Process principle: When masters plan to help learners acquire a particular phase, they observe an important difference before they decide on the process.

Questionable: Some doubts about the destination reputation but no medical shots required.

Reflecting: Looking inward to recall personal memories and contemplate social scenarios.

Reporting: Synthesizing information from the different senses into a single, unified, and coherent record of experience.

Rustic: Backpack sites, indigenous markets, or living off the land.

Scaffolding principle: Learners recognize two phases above the one they are performing at but having great difficulty learning if they try to skip the intervening phase.

Scientific method: a community of trained users to systematically observe, identify, and organize natually occurring events, so that they can reliably count and measure the events as well as create, test, and critique models for predicting and modifying such counts and measurements.

Succession model: an equation that describes the relative contributions of usability, motivation, and opportunity to the growth rates of the phases within a goal .

Step: One of four parts of transformative learning needed to establish a new phase.

Sustain: Use a rich variety of practices that you have learned over the years to perform and adjust automatically.

Travel analogy: A comparison between travel and learning about expertise that links a new practice to familiar ones.

Travelog: Photos and journal containing new insights for travelers and others that are often published.

Tutored: Engage a guide that focuses on one type of destination history, study, people, or environment where plans can be changed when necessary.

Unwind: Relax, bring everything you need, or go to an all-inclusive resort.

Usability: the growth rate of the frequency of use of a phase).

Walkable: Resting places are common and walking sometimes results in getting dirty.