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by flandish 763 days ago
I like this. I feel like I’m too old, at 45, to relearn and this may help!
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The biggest barrier to learning is having a real motivating need to learn the thing. Young people aren't as dissolutioned about the uselessness of what they are learning relative to all the demands of adult life.

I've learned amazing things when I had a real reason pop pup, after a decade of idly wanting to learn it.