When you can learn without effort, you are not actually learning.
When you are learning a "new language" that you can use without difficulty, it consists largely of what you have already learned, and you are learning few new concepts. You think you have learned a lot efficiently, when in fact you have not learned much that is new. This is a bad state of mind to be stuck in and you need to realize it and get out of it.
In this explanation, I write "new language" because I am using the example of learning a new programming language as an example, but in general, it seems to be better to say "new concept".
Concepts that can be learned without the hardships of confusion, shock, disorientation, and conflict with one's past ideas are not significantly different from concepts already acquired. It is a bad state of affairs to misperceive that one is learning well by rapidly acquiring concepts that are not very different from the ones one has already acquired. Related: comfort zone. "When you feel like you're not having a hard time learning something new, it's because it's not actually new," something like that in "The Engineer's Guide to Intellectual Production," which goes along with the often quoted quote in the startup community, "[When everything seems under control, you're just It is similar to the quote "[When everything seems under control, you're just as fast as you should.
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