Which Is Easier: Learning Or Unlearning?
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Learning is pretty straightforward, but almost all forms of practical learning involve trial and error, so students of anything inevitably get to where they want to be the most inefficient way. They improve through practice, but along the way they pick up bad habits which will prevent them ever surpassing a certain point, and this is true of anything. Once those bad habits are learned, the brain can react violently to attempts to unlearn them. Indeed, most people from my own experience simply shut off the possibility that they might be wrong about something, however trivial it may be. Ultimately, the religion of individualism (and ego) is responsible for this, but that's an argument for another day. My point is simply to say that changing your mind about something you were previously sure about is among the hardest tasks we as humans ever face. Side: Learning
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Once those bad habits are learned, the brain can react violently to attempts to unlearn them. Indeed, most people from my own experience simply shut off the possibility that they might be wrong about something, however trivial it may be. Like when you see China censor its people, disappear its own people, kill whistleblowing doctors and scientists, then spread a virus worldwide, and your reaction is to place your lips directly to Xi Jinping's tyrannical, murdering butthole? Unlearning seems to be particularly hard for you. Side: Unlearning
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