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Being creative (debugging loosely falls in that category) and learning has to be different. When creating or inventing you can fall well and truly inside the bo
by zaphirplane 9y ago
Being creative (debugging loosely falls in that category) and learning has to be different. When creating or inventing you can fall well and truly inside the box, taking a break helps you think outside the box, learning sounds like the more in the box/zone the more you get it.
TLDR; sometimes you want a new perspective, sometime re-energise, taking a break is an easy way to get both. You
- brandall10 9y agoBut that's the thing - I believe deep learning is actually a creative process. The new information needs to fit in your existing model of what you already know/believe, and doing so is a creative endeavor. The more you move away from that the more you end up with rote memorization. That's why people respond better to different teaching styles, different angles of explanation, top-down vs. bottom-up, etc - because they better align with how their creative mind works.