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This is very naive (to the point of detached from reality). Kids who do not develop motoric skills become grownups without said skills. There's a gap there almo
by avip 8y ago
This is very naive (to the point of detached from reality). Kids who do not develop motoric skills become grownups without said skills. There's a gap there almost unbridgeable. It sounds like you take stiching to be "easy", something that can be taught in a few days like let's say basics of JS. But teaching the body to do things is a serious task. Have you ever watched a grown up learning to swim, bike, or ice-skate?
- ronilan 8y ago> Have you ever watched a grown up learning to swim, bike or ice-skate? I’m a Level 2 CASI certified snowboard instructor. I taught hundreds of adult beginners over the years. I myself started as a never-ever when I was 35. Season starting soon, come up (I’m at Vancouver/Grouse) it’s awesome!
- avip 8y agoActually we've met once, but it wasn't on Grouse. I'll keep the open invitation 'till it's relevant.
- 2muchcoffeeman 8y agoMeaningless without knowing your history. If you were a skateboarder and tranfered to snow boarding, you have transferable skills. Snow boarding is also done upright, so your spatial awareness is the same. Try teaching adults with no gymnastics background how to handstand. Kids can pick this up in weeks. I know very few examples of adults managing it. And even then their skill level is not very high.
- dagw 8y agoThey can be taught to be competent enough to get down your average black slope without hurting themselves, but they almost never develop the fluidity and effortlessness across all kinds of conditions that comes with having done something since they where kids.
- Marsymars 8y agoI taught myself how to swim as an adult. The main challenge I found wasn't "new muscle memory things are hard", but "as an adult, I'm not used to committing serious time to things that I'm terrible at".
- ObnoxiousProxy 8y agoLearning how to swim in adulthood vs learning how to swim and becoming good enough at a competitive level are very different things.... Im not trying to downplay your achievement, but that's the level of distinction here with regards to surgeons.
- cgag 8y agoI've always wondered if it's basically impossible or just not something people have time for, but many of my friends in college were completely uncoordinated and I find it difficult to imagine them being able to become surgeons. They also grew up before smartphones though, they just never played any sports or did anything physical.
- pessimizer 8y agoI don't think this is true. Other reasons that it's difficult for adults to learn things are: 1) A fear of embarrassment while learning - because as an adult learner you're at the bottom of a far wider range of skill levels of people your own age than a child is when they're learning. When you've been working on your French for two years, and a five year-old French child speaks with a facility you don't have in your wildest dreams, well, remember that that five year-old has been working on their French for five years; and while they were learning, they never had to feel like they were too far behind every other under-five in the world. 2) The constant encouragement of adults to concentrate on improving the things that they're already good at, and not to waste too much time on the things they're not good at that aren't necessary for their jobs. I think part of this comes in the form of theories that it's impossible to learn things after you're the customary age for people to learn that thing. Or worse, that everybody who is good at a thing was anointed by god or genes to be good at it, therefore if you aren't good at it already you probably weren't chosen.