As business leaders try to find the balance between risk-taking and expertise, and between hard work and burnout, more are finding that the 85-15 rule is key to getting the best out of their employees.
A group of academics used artificial intelligence to determine the optimum level of difficulty for new learning in 2019. They found that the program they designed performed best at an 85 per cent level of difficulty.
Bob Wilson, one of the authors of the study and an associate professor of psychology and cognitive science at the University of Arizona, said: “At least in broad terms, if you really want to learn something and master something you have to be willing to challenge yourself and push yourself to the point where
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