It's all about risk.
There is no scientific consensus that the brain is malleable in any significant way.
Aiming within one's apparent means will likely result in employment.
There is no scientific consensus that the brain is malleable in any significant way.
Aiming within one's apparent means will likely result in employment.
Rats that are kept in cages devoid of adornment have smaller, less dense, brains than rats that have toys and varied sonsory stimulation. It's simple, the more things we have with which to think, the better and more complex our thinking can be.
Think Orwell's Newspeak and Herman Hesse's Glass bead games.
What is awful here is that you seem to be convinced that mediocrity is a worthwhile tactic for people and for children... and I think this rips the heart from the very idea of what it means to be alive and better oneself.
YC readers are understandably strongly biased against such values of take-it-easy life. I don't subscribe to such values either, but they can not be straightforwardly discounted as inferior just like that. I would argue that understanding your limitations is just as important as developing your abilities.
[1:Einfuhlung, Johann Gottfried Herder, Isaiah Berlin]