Life skills vs mental function
We are all born with a brain, new ,clean and unused ,like a blank page or a computer hard drive...We are exposed to stimuli be it nuture or nature as we mature our brain stores data and we learn...
Everyone's life experience imprints us in a different way .
So a doctor may have the same life skills but need more intelligence than the basic command structure of say a truck driver...
Driving is just hand /eye coordination nothing more ,after all 90% of the population over the age of 15 can aquire this basic skill in a matter of hours...
In fact there are many documented cases of people driving hundreds of miles while asleep !
I myself have zoned out and driven a 2 hour trip and recalled nothing of the journey when asked about it later...
So at what point do we stop learning ?
Does our brain reach a point of being full
Do we reach our potential and then turn off
Or can we all aspire to be more than a simple lump of meat steering an 18 wheeler down a deserted highway gazing into space as the tyres eat up the road and we vegetate behind the wheel ...
I used the doctor / truck driver as an example and my apologies if I have offended anyone
I could have easily used another comparison but I think everyone can understand the concept of my argument
As always this is just my humble opinion
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Both for brain function and muscle memory.
Regarding having options...This applies for conscious learning such as driving a car..learn a new language for example.
But we also learn things every day such as acquiring new knowledge without conscious effort.
A dance teacher really is trained, so in my humble opinion, they really are dedicated and trained, not something they pick up over time spent attending social dances.
Learning sequences has proved to be very good for the memory, and dance is thought an excellent if not more gentle way to keep fit in mind and body.
However as we age, we are also likely to suffer health problems and our outlook and needs change, so for someone considered not academic, to become a mature student in 2008 when living in isolated Far North NZ, it had to be a mixture of study, though mostly online I tackled 8 papers ranging from Non Fiction to Children.....Picture Books, so the focus was writing..
I struggled for the first few months, as it had been 40 years since I left school, which I did at 15 years of age, but once completed those 3 years, I found learning easy, and so changed my main focus, but funnily enough shared my time between both. I also had a greater feeling of achievement.
My reason for writing is to comment on how much we can retain.
I think the mind will flush what is not used on a regular basis, and figures I never favoured just like dances, will be the first to go, but with a text book in hand, you can refresh the mind, but what works best for me is the music. The way muscles, mind and limbs work as one, becomes maybe closer to a robot, but it really does work.
I think this is enough from me....but the mind is a wonderful tool...or should I say mind-body and soul......
Or Peter pan syndrome