I will quote a very interesting part from an article above:
"...Amateurs, by contrast, use short-term memory while playing chess. When they take in new information, it stays in the "small hard drive" of working memory without passing over into the "zip drive" of long-term memory. "Amateurs are overwriting things they've already learned," says Amidzic. "Can you imagine how frustrating that is!..."
There is an interesting article that I read recently, but I can't remember where I read it [It didn't make it to long term memory
]. It was discussing the function of sleep (we don't really know why we sleep.) I am paraphrasing below:
I claim that sleeping patterns is a key difference between amateurs and professionals that work equally hard. Bobby Fischer was known to sleep prodigious amounts of hours. It is now only beginning to be learned that the function of sleeping is to make the brain forget, as the real estate inside the brain is very valuable. It does this by sending out random signals to see how many of the weak connections it formed that waking day it can break (forget.) The connections that survive the "sleep onslaught" on neuronal connections have a great chance of making it to long term memory - imo the key to greatness.
The difference between greatness and average may be nothing more than effortful study combined with the gift of sleeping "right," or perhaps not sleeping at all!
There are also connections with depression and sleeplesness, or perhaps not sleeping "right", another link between "creative genius" and brain disfunctions. The clues are there for someone to put it all together.
nitro
"...Amateurs, by contrast, use short-term memory while playing chess. When they take in new information, it stays in the "small hard drive" of working memory without passing over into the "zip drive" of long-term memory. "Amateurs are overwriting things they've already learned," says Amidzic. "Can you imagine how frustrating that is!..."
There is an interesting article that I read recently, but I can't remember where I read it [It didn't make it to long term memory
]. It was discussing the function of sleep (we don't really know why we sleep.) I am paraphrasing below:I claim that sleeping patterns is a key difference between amateurs and professionals that work equally hard. Bobby Fischer was known to sleep prodigious amounts of hours. It is now only beginning to be learned that the function of sleeping is to make the brain forget, as the real estate inside the brain is very valuable. It does this by sending out random signals to see how many of the weak connections it formed that waking day it can break (forget.) The connections that survive the "sleep onslaught" on neuronal connections have a great chance of making it to long term memory - imo the key to greatness.
The difference between greatness and average may be nothing more than effortful study combined with the gift of sleeping "right," or perhaps not sleeping at all!
There are also connections with depression and sleeplesness, or perhaps not sleeping "right", another link between "creative genius" and brain disfunctions. The clues are there for someone to put it all together.
nitro
