Why Do People (Usually) Learn Less as They Get Older? - Scott H Young
Consume old stuff when you're young and new stuff when you're old. This is the opposite of what most people do
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deliberately focusing on the new and harder material. Instead, I was using lazy learning, mostly only playing songs I already knew well.
Barbara Oakley PhD • Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens
The purpose of education, living, interacting, and growing as a person should be to increase complexity--that is, to progress through the stages from copying to creating as described in Gauging mastery. Without this progression, the brain is overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of facts, stuff, relations, appointments, etc. If information is simply ac
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