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by afry1 1174 days ago
The 2:00 timestamp in this Veritassium video on expertise goes into exactly that phenomenon. We acquire expertise by recognizing the patterns in what we do. But once you take the patterns away, a lot of that "expertise" disappears too: https://youtu.be/5eW6Eagr9XA

Jazz piano vs classical is a perfect example of this: same instrument, two paradigms with totally different idioms.