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I think that a large part of it are psychological / personality factors - how much pleasure do you find in thinking, learning new things, solving problems.
by RivieraKid 11y ago
I think that a large part of it are psychological / personality factors - how much pleasure do you find in thinking, learning new things, solving problems.
- mbrock 11y agoAlso, what's valued by your social group, what kind of intellectual environment do you inhabit, and so on. Generally one could imagine a massive neural network and consider how effectively it's being trained... and how it's then being put to use. If you have 10% more neurons, that's cool, you might have more potential in the way that an elite bodybuilder probably has advantageous genetic factors for muscle growth or whatever. But it should reasonably be far from the dominating factor.
- dan00 11y agoFear takes every kind of pleasure. So the fear of not looking smart, not feeling smart, might be already enough to dislike certain kind of things. But there's certainly also a difference in people without fear - like you said - how much they get a "kick" from learning new things.
- vlehto 11y agoI'd claim the fear can be just irrational. Maybe learned behavior, you we afraid of doing homework once. The next time you remember that experience and it becomes grueling experience. After some time you have learned to fear, but there is not really anything you are afraid off. Or there is, but you don't know it. Humans are really good at inventing explanations for their feelings and believing those explanations. I think just acknowledging that it's fear is good first step.