Games can teach us something about motivation & perseverance: - Approachability: should be fun yet challenging on first try - Rewards - Fast feedback loops
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The main difficulty with learning something new, is that most things are boring when you're bad at them & only approaching them at an elementary level (e.g. math). You need to stay motivated until you're good enough that the fun of deep practice becomes self-sustaining
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So true. Mais pour un homme de vertu comme toi, l'effort n'est plus un problème non ?
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100% .... learning to play a musical instrument is a good example
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Was about to say this
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I would also argue the lack of background knowledge can contribute to the 'boringness' of topics.
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This is poorly explained to young students, or left to drill sergeants. IME, good learning comes from that sense of love/desire to know. Finding that zone of "interesting" and gratification enough to maintain it, re Schmidhuber computational aesthetics HT Yohanpic.twitter.com/wZ2v0Ab9qA
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*often poorly explained
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As a mathematician, this SERIOUSLY resonates with me! If you're not following
@fchollet, you're missing some wonderfully reflective gems like this (commonplace from his feed). Do yourself a favor; follow him. It'll get your bio.neural.nets engaged. You might even learn something!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I always hated math in school and shrugged it off as something I wouldn’t need in the real world. Now I’m doing math every day and wish I had paid more attention. I actually really enjoy the math problems I work on now because I can understand why I’m doing them.
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