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The Great Paradox of Working Memory
When we're just learning a skill, we do have to pay attention to it a lot. But once we know it really well and it's on autopilot, if you pay too much attention to aspects of it that you wouldn't normally focus on, then you actually disrupt it. So this is the great paradox of working memory. It plays an essential role as we're learning a new skill.