Sentences with phrase «idea of the learning curve»

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Once entrepreneurs realize that business and life are long learning curves, they can more readily let go of past mistakes and more expediently and effectively bring fruition to their next big idea.

She faced a steep learning curve as despite showing raw talent, had no idea about the skills and tactics of cycling, let alone the fact the track bikes have no brakes!

The general idea is that the longer you put into learning something, the better you get — the «curve» describes your rate of progress on a graph of learning vs. experience.

A year ago, when P.K. Tyler and I met online and decided to organize a list - making boxed set, we had no idea of the amount of work involved, the joy and frustration we'd experience, or the angle of the learning curve we'd so blithely embarked on.

The bad side is that you don't have that learning curve as to know what makes a great cover, so your sales are dependent on someone else's ideas of a good cover.

In the middle of editing the first book of that urban fantasy series for the 100th time (I'm probably not kidding — that story was my learning curve), I got the idea for a dragon shapeshifter character in a paranormal romance story.

Boasting a gentle - but definitely ever - present - learning curve Rayman Legends's biggest strength is tied up in the fact that this game just doesn't run out of great ideas.

Along similar lines, artist Carroll Dunham has written, «In a relatively brief period, on a steep learning, curve, Peter took an idea of questionable promise and drove it hard.

Through scenes shot in 29 countries, the programs describe Sanjayan's learning curve as a scientist and conservation campaigner, from years when he pursued traditional strategies for environmental protection, like the establishment of parks (read this 1998 Science paper to get the idea), to conservation efforts that foster sustainable land use from the ground up.

The large and growing literature on what is really behind «learning curves» — the complex processes of research, learning, new technology adoption, and supply chain improvements that typical lead to falling costs alongside expanding technology adoption — puts to lie the idea that deployment alone is all we need to drive down costs.