Most child academics + extracurriculars are set up in such a way that young people develop the impression that there are only a few kinds of ability, and life is largely about being rank-ordered within them. The reality is that the world is full of problems & tools for the takinghttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1204538243301011458 …
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If you're a slower thinker, dyslexic, have a poor working memory, etc... you may need to make greater use of workarounds & external tools, and you may still be slower. So what? None of these are a limitation nearly as devastating as disinterest, and we never talk about that one!
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https://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6362/558 … "I've learned to question everything, including the dogmatic notions scattered throughout the scientific literature. Asking these questions has garnered me several publications." That is, of course, a profound learning ability.
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Eric Weinstein has also been talking about this a lot recently, e.g. with Andrew Yang (starts around 32:00)https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa2f0r9W2Mg&t=1904s …
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