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Originally posted by Auburn Annie:
It IS harder to lay down new information as we age than when we're kids.
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When I moved to Sweden in 1999, I spent a few months in school in an advanced language course to pick up conversational and written Swedish. Our teacher told us that our biggest learning hurdle was that we are adults. We are too set in our ways and our minds are not open enough anymore (not to mention my own perspective of millions of my brain cells that have died from abuse over the years!). The teacher went on to say that kids generally need to be told something 3 times before they retain the info, yet adults need to be told somewhere between 10-12 times! And now, seven years later, my memory retention is even worse!