“Deep learning is slow. ‘The slowest growth,’ the researchers wrote, occurs ‘for the most complex skills.'”
“I was stunned when cognitive psychologists I spoke with led me to an enormous and too often ignored body of work demonstrating that learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress. That is, the most effective learning looks inefficient; it looks like falling behind.”
“There is often no entrenched interest fighting on the side of the range, or of knowledge that must be slowly acquired. All forces align to incentivize a head start and early, narrow specialization, even if that is a poor long-term strategy. That is a problem, because another kind of knowledge, perhaps the most important of all, is necessarily slowly acquired—the kind that helps you match yourself to the right challenge in the first place.”
Slow learners are always demoralized in our present learning systems, often equated as being ‘dumb’. But the truth is, the knowledge that lasts isn’t acquired quickly but is slowly absorbed.
Gaining knowledge follows the law of compounding, growing exponentially eventually, but slowly.
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