Re:Your Brain Knows a Lot More Than You Realize
by ap22213 on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:15AM
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This makes sense to me - and, I do this all the time, especially with games.
Recently, I took a three-day trip and wanted to zone out on a game, so I started playing a card game called 'spider solitaire', based on a friend's suggestion.
I had never played it before, and I found it to be very challenging with all the difficulty settings set to the maximum. And, at that difficulty level, I would quickly lose every attempt, and it was very frustrating.
But, by the third day, I found that I suddenly winning 15-20% of my attempts. Not statistical evidence by any means, but I was playing enough to definitely see a drastic change in success.
The funny thing was that I had no idea why I was suddenly winning. I didn't consciously change my playing methods. In fact, I 'felt' like I was just moving the cards around the same as I was before.
Recently, I took a three-day trip and wanted to zone out on a game, so I started playing a card game called 'spider solitaire', based on a friend's suggestion.
I had never played it before, and I found it to be very challenging with all the difficulty settings set to the maximum. And, at that difficulty level, I would quickly lose every attempt, and it was very frustrating.
But, by the third day, I found that I suddenly winning 15-20% of my attempts. Not statistical evidence by any means, but I was playing enough to definitely see a drastic change in success.
The funny thing was that I had no idea why I was suddenly winning. I didn't consciously change my playing methods. In fact, I 'felt' like I was just moving the cards around the same as I was before.