Beginners The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning

the journalist Tom Vanderbilt who wrote this book called Beginners and he had this harrowing moment with his own I think nine-year-old at the time where he was taking her to like just practice and drum practice and swimming lessons and all these things and she was like learning and having a good time and he'd sit there while she was doing that and like farts around on some feed or check his email feeling bored and he was like wait a minute hang on I could be doing that fun thing too

skill learning, he writes, is like high intensity interval training for your brain.

in science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you don't know what you are doing, you should not be doing it.

The author is Tom Vanderbilt. The book is called Beginners, the Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning.

Skill learning, he writes, is like high intensity interval training for your brain.

I have received a copy of this book by Tom Vanderbilt.

And at one point, Vanderbilt includes a comparison that I love. It's attributed to the mathematician Richard Hemming, who was describing the difference between engineers and scientists.

So anyway, Richard Hemming says, as quoted in Tom Vanderbilt's book, in science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you don't know what you are doing, you should not be doing it.