Why when learning how to play something, such as an instrument, does something suddenly click and you suddenly become much better at that skill?
And does this apply for learning anything? Such as programming or are some things just learnt at a constant rate by certain people.
In: 475
“Clicking” is when what was previously an island of knowledge suddenly gets connected to the mainland of the rest of your knowledge. You can visualize it like solving a jigsaw puzzle and suddenly finding where a block of tiles you’ve been working on connects to the big picture.
Humans use a learning technique called “working maps” to allow us to navigate problems we’ve never seen before in a totally abstract space. When the brain recognizes a large piece of that map (say, that controlling a surfboard is somewhat like turning a bike) it’s suddenly able to make a whole bunch of related leaps of inference at the same time based on that more familiar territory.
Anything that you’re learning that has a strong analogue with something you’ve already learned is going to “click” at some point. Anything that is less intuitive or totally unfamiliar will be less likely to give you that learning curve.
Latest Answers