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英語
About seven years ago I started learning how to paint as a hobby: I was pretty terrible.
Everything looked flat, I did not have the right proportions, and my colors were totally off. My
friends and colleagues suggested that I stop wasting my time (a ) something I wasn't good
at. "Focus on your day job," they said.
I kept at it practicing, taking classes, finding the right teachers who could teach and
challenge me Over five years, painting started to become intuitive", and surprisingly, I am now
considered "good." Today, the same friends say I was born with this talent. "You're in the
wrong profession," one said recently.
The same thing happened when I started piano and singing lessons a couple of years ago.
Comments shifted from. "Stop wasting your time and focus on what you know," to "You've got a
musical talent."
(A
These comments originate from long-held beliefs that growth is largely not possible for adults.
Even when there is evidence of learning, it can be caused by talent from birth, like the comments
that I received suggested. Most scientific studies on adulthood focus on cognitive maintenance
or decline, rather than growth. (b) that even scientists may think that development is severely
limited in adulthood. The prevailing" mentality is represented by proverbs, such as "use it or lose
it," or worse, "old dogs can't learn new tricks."
A few recent studies, such as ones by Arne May and Denise Park, ( C ) suggest that
learning new skills, such as juggling or photography, for even three months may strengthen
brain functioning in adults.
(B)
I would take these studies one step further to argue that an important cause of cognitive
