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I think there’s something true about this, yeah. Which is a bit of a shame; getting over the neuroplastic hump gets harder the older you get, even if it’s to yo

• lanstin 3y ago
  i recentlty heard a neuroscientist who is also an opera singer asked this, and she said that outside of language acquisition, there really isn't any strong evidence that learning becomes harder. old people just forget how much time and energy people put into practise and learning when young. it helps to be in school when your job is basically to learn, and you dont have kids to tend to etc. i do notice the pull towards resting on ny existing skills as being less work than learning new skills (in software, in my 50s) but i can't be sure that hour for hour the rate is much lower. i do have less energy and more enjoyable leisure alternatives than 30 years ago.
  • hprotagonist 3y ago
    right; i wasn’t exactly suggesting that there’s a physical limitation here (modulo the indeed well documented synaptic pruning in puberty), more that in adulthood, it’s just not possible to sink all your time into learning something the way you can more or less effortlessly do when you’re 15.
    • lanstin 3y ago
      True but unfortunate.