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Author makes the point that repetition of a solid foundation is a necessary condition to reach unconscious mastery of some craft/skill. I am just not sure it
by sireat 10y ago
Author makes the point that repetition of a solid foundation is a necessary condition to reach unconscious mastery of some craft/skill.
I am just not sure it is sufficient. Age/talent/nature do play a big factor.
Also I suspect starting to learn serious math at age of 26 she is an outlier.
Russian is my 2nd language (English is my 3rd) and both I learned through repetition via reading prodigious amounts in each language.
My Spanish is horrible because I only studied it in high school and never did read any serious books in Spanish.
Now in my 40s I find that learning German is a formidable task even to read Brothers Grimm much less some philosophical works that I had hoped to.
Part of the problem is lack of time (6 months of Duolingo is not enough that's for sure) but also my brain seems to require more repetition to acquire the same knowledge that my daughter picks up near instantly.
- projektfu 10y agoI learned to read French with the book French for Reading. Perhaps the German version would help you. https://smile.amazon.com/German-Reading-Second-John-Wendel/dp/158510745X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473976898&sr=8-1&keywords=german+for+reading https://smile.amazon.com/German-Reading-Second-John-Wendel/d...
- pbhjpbhj 10y ago>my brain seems to require more repetition to acquire the same knowledge that my daughter picks up near instantly. // Perhaps you're hitting storage limitations? Hypothesis: you need more repetitions to tell your brain to store the info in a more accessible manner, like more cache-hits indicating the data should be placed in a higher level cache? Additional hypothesis: without wiping earlier memories the brain needs to rearrange how things are stored - maybe recategorising, re-"compressing" - in which case new knowledge would need to be for in to a right framework, conceptually, and possibly placed physically to optimise it's storage. I'm imaging the brain like a spider-diagram - when you start you can easily find a space to draw a new concept and the lines connecting it. As you go on that becomes more difficult. Now to work on creating an experiment to test my wild hypothesising!