When you’re faced with a cognitive challenge, part of dealing with a cognitive challenge is with the subject matter. How much do I know about this issue? Have I had experience in the issue before? Another part of it is knowing what it means to struggle, to have difficulty, to deal with a cognitive problem that you haven’t faced before, and how to work through it. That meta-sense, that metacognitive difficulty, or the meta-difficulty that is laid over that experience is something that you have to learn, and not only learn, but perhaps experience over and over again so that you become better at it.
Adam Alter at Edge. DISFLUENCY (via protoslacker)
That last kind of learning reminds me of my experience learning/teaching programming. Being invested in something long enough to beat your head against the wall of it more than a few times is important. I feel lucky to have found something I feel that way about.
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