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>> Whatever your mind believes it doesn’t need to hold on to that what is expensive to maintain and run, it’ll let go of. This isn’t entirely accurate from a neuroscience perspective but it’s kinda ballpark.

>> Pretty much like muscles decay when we stop using them.

> Sure, but sticking with that analogy, bicycles haven’t caused the muscles of people that used to go for walks and runs to atrophy either ...

This is an invalid continuation of the analogy, as bicycling involves the same muscles used for walking. A better analogy to describe the effect of no longer using learned skills could be:

  Asking Amazon's Alexa to play videos of people
  bicycling the Tour de France[0] and then walking
  from the couch to the your car every workday
  does not equate to being able to participate in
  the Tour de France[0], even if years ago you
  once did.
0 - https://www.letour.fr/en/


Thanks for putting the citation for the Tour de France. I wouldn't have believed you otherwise.


> Thanks for putting the citation for the Tour de France. I wouldn't have believed you otherwise.

Then the citation served its purpose.

You're welcome.




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