I've always felt there are two types of learning. The first kind is where I'm learning how to do something completely new: ride a bike, multiply matrices, jugg

I've always felt there are two types of learning. The first kind is where I'm learning how to do something completely new: ride a bike, multiply matrices, juggle, regular expressions, whatever. My brain must be building new algorithms--it's creating new brain software. The second kind of learning is where I'm learning new facts and figures: the state capitals, the characters on Game of Thrones, the top fifty dirty jokes, etc. This is my brain filling in a database or hash table. The first kind of learning definitely hurts a lot more than the second.