As A Kid Life Seems Easier

Yes, decisions should be made with facts. But in reality, to those directly involved, they’re made with contextualized facts (with things like social signaling, time horizon, office politics, government politics, year-end bonus targets, making up for past mistakes, insecurities, etc).

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• You need the pain in order for it to matter to you to learn
• but pain can get in the way of learning
• But when you're losing, your limbic system lights up and gets in the way of learning
• It does not feel good to lose
• It particularly gets in the way when ...

• Children are exposed to about 10,000 hours of language in their first four years. But children are seldom experts in a language by then, suggesting that they find it harder to learn a language.
• Very young children can distinguish between about 800 sounds that make up all languages,...