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Chess, and perhaps Go, might be outliers here, in that both are designed to exceed the human mind's possible ability. But for everything else, I agree with you
by danielvf 10y ago
Chess, and perhaps Go, might be outliers here, in that both are designed to exceed the human mind's possible ability.
But for everything else, I agree with you. I'm able to learn new skills considerably faster now than in my twenties. Part of that is practice learning, and part of that is having a lot of things to relate any new concept to.
- vkjv 10y ago> ...and part of that is having a lot of things to relate any new concept to. This is an interesting way to put it that I haven't thought about before. I have found it hard to explain that sometimes new things are easy to learn and sometimes hard. I usually attribute this to the difficulty of the concept, but maybe it's that I'm not really learning the easy things but finding a very similar concept to relate it to that I already know.