Learning is the process of failing repeatedly in the pursuit of achieving something until you finally succeed. Then learning isn’t fun by definition. Let’s prove it: If you don’t like failing then obviously it’s not fun because failing is part of the process of learning. If you do like failing then you won’t learn anything because you are already happy with the result of failing so you don’t have much incentive to succeed. But trying to make learning fun is something that everybody is trying to do these days so probably they mean something different than fun. Every time a person wants to learn something the person weights the Benefit versus the Cost of learning. If the benefit is zero or the cost is infinite then nobody will want to learn that. An interesting property of learning is that the higher the cost the faster people learn because people don’t want to make the same costly mistake again, but if the cost is higher than certain threshold the person will quit learning. Also interesting is that both the Benefit and the Cost of learning a specific activity are assigned by each person independently and it also varies in function of time for the same person. A lot of people are trying to break hard and complex things to learn into smaller parts and give rewards for small progress which helps people to measure progress, keeps them motivated and reduce the number of people that quits.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 07:58:42 +0000
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