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I'm barely 22, even I have started to feel deficiencies in my learning and retaining abilities. I think the main problem seems to be that you "grow" out of your

I'm barely 22, even I have started to feel deficiencies in my learning and retaining abilities. I think the main problem seems to be that you "grow" out of your learning phase. I can't keep myself concentrated on a reading for more than a few minutes anymore, even though I used to be the most voracious reader in my school as a kid who would keep on reading for the whole day if he wasn't disturbed. I can't concentrate on classes or video tutorials as much as I could as a child. Even skills seem to get impacted - I used to do big calculations in my head and retain multiplication tables up to 20 like most other Asian kids, but I can't seem to make myself do that anymore.

theonething 6y ago
I'm much older than you. I grew up without the internet. I found that when the internet became mainstream, my ability to read books and concentrate diminished significantly. Pretty sad about that.
Agingcoder 6y ago
While I'm getting (much) older as well, I have found that I'm much more focused when I want to learn something. Unlike when I was 16 and essentially behaving like a sponge, I need to decide that I'm going to learn something, and actively go for it. Once I have turned the switch on, I can learn, and more efficiently than when I was younger since I have some kind of plan/target, and years of experience have taught be when I don't understand/think I know but don't and how to fix it. In other words, I have traded raw natural learning ability for 'I'm slower but more efficient'.