In everyday life, you often need to forget some contradictory memory clues related to old memories, so that you can connect memory clues with new knowledge.
If you want to learn Italian in middle age, you may need to forget the French you learned in high school, because even if you try so hard, every time you want to say the word "essere" in Italian, the French word "etre" always pops up in your head. When traveling in England, you have to suppress the desire to live on the right side of the road and keep this memory trail from moving, so that you can build reliable clues and drive on the left side of the road.
Take speaking fluently french or driving on the right for many years, even if you don't use it for a while, or if the search for clues is interrupted by something new, it is very easy to pick up this ingrained knowledge later. What is forgotten is not the knowledge itself, but the clues that allow you to find and retrieve it. Clues created for new knowledge (driving on the left) replace the clues of old knowledge (driving on the right, provided you haven't lost your life by driving on the right).
Learning something new is sometimes about forgetting something, which is hard to understand, but it's also very important. When switching from a pc to an Apple Mac, or from a Microsoft Windows platform to another platform, you have to forget a lot of things in order to learn the architecture of the new system so that you can easily operate and focus on how it works rather than studying the computer. Training at skydiving schools is also an example.
After retiring from the army, many paratroopers wanted to become parachute firefighters. Compared with the military, parachute firefighters take different planes, have different equipment, and have different skydiving rules. Being trained in the military is actually a big disadvantage for skydiving firefighters, because you have to forget about the parachuting routine that has become a reflex and replace the old knowledge with new knowledge. Although in the eyes of the layman, both jobs are jumping off the plane with a parachute, there is no difference. However, whenever you want to learn something new, you have to forget the clues associated with complex old knowledge. - "Cognitive Nature"
Fluent switching between learning knowledge areas is something that everyone who wants to take learning as the main color of life should know. #Learning Methods #Education Listen to Me # #教育 #
