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It’s probably not important whether the talent is encoded in someone’s DNA or whether it was formed during their childhood and early education they got. But by
by jhrmnn 5y ago
It’s probably not important whether the talent is encoded in someone’s DNA or whether it was formed during their childhood and early education they got. But by the time people are teenagers, there can be large differences in learning ability that are impossible to level anymore. You can push through those differences through “belief, drive, focus, grit,” etc, but the baselines are different.
- pksebben 5y agothere are differences between any two people anywhere ever, though. Is there some reason that being over 20 means you're done developing?
- jhrmnn 5y agoYou can learn a new foreign language when you’re 20. But it’s way easier when you’re 10 or 5. Same goes for learning to play chess, to code, and more broadly, for learning to learn.
- Arisaka1 5y agoIsn't this because everything is new to you when you have close to no life experience? Aside from our default programming mode of eat, sleep, walk the bucket we call brain is practically empty of experiences and theories when we are 5.
- pksebben 5y agoI'm 35. I started learning to code 5 years ago. I have a job in the industry, and I advance my understanding of the space daily - I'm sorry, but that just doesn't gel with the actual, firsthand experience I have with this stuff. You're never past expanding your understanding of the world.