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With the few updates on more learning, writing, and some forward calls for archiving which I'll be jotting down for some ideas soon.
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#+title: Tunnel vision
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#+date: "2021-07-15 22:21:04 +08:00"
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#+date_modified: "2021-08-07 11:35:53 +08:00"
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#+language: en
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- being invested in an idea that it blocks other ideas;
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this makes it harder to solve new problems where they expect to work similarly from their experience;
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it is a net negative if we force our way with the familiar solution while not understanding the new type of problem
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- [[id:9f1f35dd-7cf9-4f47-a9a9-b647e5daa2af][We are more associative than structured]];
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we tend to create connections between different things including new things;
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- we may also have to [[roam:Learn how to forget]];
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in a world of quick and constant changes, learning new rules and topics takes up mental resources;
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we have to assign some garbage day at some point;
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unfortunately, we cannot easily do that from our experience as we try to survive by sticking to what we know
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- it is present on most experts with their experience on the field;
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but this is also a potential problem for students in training where certain principles are taught then encountering a new idea overall
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- a lot of the teaching focuses on explaining things;
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one could try to use specific use cases as [[id:e5d4cb07-d0e6-4bda-b2fc-426240b04f78][Specific use cases are better than step-by-step tutorials]]
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- This is the reason why most of the discoveries are made either by young people or those who haven't formally trained for the original field.
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- to combat against this, we do [[id:2667d942-48b6-4d1e-b92b-15c2dab645ed][Switching between different topics makes new perspective]]
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- by the same principle, we could also let our attention switch at times;
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[[id:0e2c9eaf-f12a-47b2-9c9c-d1a590db131b][Involuntary attention switch is good for preventing tunnel vision]]
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- examples: + studying about different software engineering principles such as "Don't repeat yourself", modularity, and clean code;
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fully applying those principles even when it is not appropriate — e.g., modularizing files even if it consists of one line, creating a dedicated function if encountered two events even if insignificant
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+ being entrenched in an idea that they overlooked simpler solutions by veterans;
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in academia, this situation is often manifested as a supposed school assignments solved by a student like [[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-13/sydney-university-student-solves-quantum-computing-problem/100064328][how a long-standing quantum computing problem was solved by a student with simple modifications to the existing solution]];
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in an unlikely manner, this is also present in speedrunning where tricks and techniques are often discovered by accident by a newcomer trying out things the veterans didn't think to do
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- sometimes, this is when we go against the idea of [[id:1bdbdcfa-98f9-4d08-a0dc-ad2f1b9b9ec9][Advice shouldn't be taken literally]]
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