According to wikipedia, "Progressive overload is the gradual increase of stress placed upon the body during exercise training." Which although referring to muscle building, is also completely applicable to metal training. The popular form of education today, doesn't understand this concept. It prefers to build an education like one builds with blocks - one upon the other. Unfortunately, this method takes decades to complete, incurring monumental costs along the way. If you worked out the same way schools teach, you'd be at the gym 8 hours a day, from the time you were five to the time you are +2
4, and you'd still not be in condition to be mr. universe! After you got out of school, you'd have to launch a lifetime career, become mr. universe be the time you reach middle age, and retire at 65.
Thankfully, the same attitude that thrives in popular education, shrivels in the gym. At the gym, you know that if you only increase the weight by a pound every week, you'd take forever to beef up. That's why at the gym, you want to overload your body to a level far higher than what is comfortably achievable, thus telling your body to produce more muscle to meet the demands of a demanding life.
What if we treated mental exercise like we do physical exercise? What if instead of taking things comfortably with our minds, we add a progressive overload to what we are trying to learn? Instead of reading a dumbed down biography of Franklin, you read his autobiography? Doing this instead, is exactly like weight lifting. Taking it easy on yourself will yield an easy subpar body, but trying to do progressively more than your muscles can handle will yield a hard superior body. While reading a little, easy, simple book will build vocabulary muscle, and speed your mental process slightly is not a effective as reading a big, complex, and sophisticated book, that will yield the same as the little book and far more.
As with lifting weights, trying to pick up a weight that is too heavy will be unmovable, likewise reading a book that is over your head will be a waste of time. Sometimes, lifting a weight that is too heavy can be dangerous to the lifter, and reading a book that is to hard can cause untold damage to your mind and to your life. Imagine the young reader, unseasoned and unprepared come across a piece of political propaganda; they may very well fall for it and become preachers of the very thing that will eventually destroy them.
So while you should exercise, and you should learn, you should do so appropriately. Exercising and learning the same stuff you did yesterday will neither increase your strength nor your mental power; and increasing it a little at a time, will take an eternity to reach maximum physical and mental fitness. Overloading the body with exercise both physical and mental, should, with discipline furnish you with a strong body and a robust mind.
If we perhaps treated education like weightlifting, instead of it taking years and years to build up, you'd become fit in 2 years, start our start your physical and mental career in high school, and become a master in your field between the ages of 25-40 for things physical, and a master between the ages 25-80+ for things mental. Time is saved this way, and more good can be accomplished.
4, and you'd still not be in condition to be mr. universe! After you got out of school, you'd have to launch a lifetime career, become mr. universe be the time you reach middle age, and retire at 65.
Thankfully, the same attitude that thrives in popular education, shrivels in the gym. At the gym, you know that if you only increase the weight by a pound every week, you'd take forever to beef up. That's why at the gym, you want to overload your body to a level far higher than what is comfortably achievable, thus telling your body to produce more muscle to meet the demands of a demanding life.
What if we treated mental exercise like we do physical exercise? What if instead of taking things comfortably with our minds, we add a progressive overload to what we are trying to learn? Instead of reading a dumbed down biography of Franklin, you read his autobiography? Doing this instead, is exactly like weight lifting. Taking it easy on yourself will yield an easy subpar body, but trying to do progressively more than your muscles can handle will yield a hard superior body. While reading a little, easy, simple book will build vocabulary muscle, and speed your mental process slightly is not a effective as reading a big, complex, and sophisticated book, that will yield the same as the little book and far more.
As with lifting weights, trying to pick up a weight that is too heavy will be unmovable, likewise reading a book that is over your head will be a waste of time. Sometimes, lifting a weight that is too heavy can be dangerous to the lifter, and reading a book that is to hard can cause untold damage to your mind and to your life. Imagine the young reader, unseasoned and unprepared come across a piece of political propaganda; they may very well fall for it and become preachers of the very thing that will eventually destroy them.
So while you should exercise, and you should learn, you should do so appropriately. Exercising and learning the same stuff you did yesterday will neither increase your strength nor your mental power; and increasing it a little at a time, will take an eternity to reach maximum physical and mental fitness. Overloading the body with exercise both physical and mental, should, with discipline furnish you with a strong body and a robust mind.
If we perhaps treated education like weightlifting, instead of it taking years and years to build up, you'd become fit in 2 years, start our start your physical and mental career in high school, and become a master in your field between the ages of 25-40 for things physical, and a master between the ages 25-80+ for things mental. Time is saved this way, and more good can be accomplished.
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