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89 | Lera Boroditsky on Language, Thought, Space, and Time
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of Discipline in Learning
When we're young, we don't know anything. So we have to work hard to learn and become an expert in something. And when we're older, we're already an expert inSomething so we can just keep doing that thing over and over again. That makes us less creative, completely irrespective of our cognitive capacities. But once you recognize that about yourself, you can do something consciously about that. You can go and have new experiences. This is one of the reasons that people travel. For example, you end up in a different context. Those times that you're away, they expand in memory. They aren't just automatic repetitions of your normal routine. Whether it's learning languages
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