Pitfall in the Learning Process

When we are learning something new, e.g., a language, a programming language, math, ... we are in an open receptive mode. The syntax and grammar of what we are learning is often being assimilated into the neurology  past critical thinking filters or questions about the presuppositions built into the syntax and grammar of what we are learning. That syntax and grammar then become filters for what we perceive. They also limit the expressibility of what we perceive by the constraints of that same syntax and grammar.



Examples:

• In learning procedural computer languages, all tasks are converted to linear, sequential time with no / little expressibility of parallel processing. We don't develop the mental constructs to think paralelly. Some parallel constructs have been developed as add-ons to existing languages without a parallelism oriented grammar.
• In business, accepting money as the measure of success, blinds us to other measures that may be far better for overall system performance, viability, longevity, health, ... One could apply this pattern to all the isms - capitalism, marxism, communism, religionisms, ...
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