🎯 "You can't ask a brain to recognize high-level patterns when the lower-level structures haven't formed yet. Once those [lower-level] structures have formed, once patterns can be retrieved instantly without conscious effort, the higher levels can build on them. A child who has to consciously sound out every letter doesn't have cognitive resources left for comprehension. But a child whose decoding is automatic can direct all their attention to meaning. The same principle applies to math, to writing, to scientific reasoning, video games, or any complex skill." twitter.com/justinskycak/statu...