The Hard Truth About Psychology, Learning New Skills, & Making Mistakes with Dr. Art Markman & Dr. Bob Duke
The Science of Success
The Advantage of Older Adults
The advantage of older adults and being one, I'm happy to claim this advantage, is that not only do I have a lot of stuff in my memory, but that stuff is organized in a way that lets me access it in ways that are very advantageous. The brain has so many great ways of accessing that information based on the similarity between the situation you're in right now and stuff that you've learned before. So had Google existed in the late 1970s when Dyson was thinking about trying to remove the bag from the vacuum, if he had been able to Google, how do you get rid of the bag in a vacuum cleaner? But at no point would any of those sites have said
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