If humans are perpetually underchallenged, they atrophy, and get worse. (Like a bone that is not used; it will become fragile, like an unused mind that will become forgetful.)
If they are significantly overchallenged, they break, and get worse. (Like a bone that snaps, or the mind that hits burn-out.)
Ideally, you want to target a level of work that is hard enough to be challenging, so you need to learn and grow, but still doable, so you have success experiences. (Like a bone that has frequent impacts that stress it, but not enough to break it, and that has sufficient supply of nutrients to fix itself; that bone will not just withstand the pressure, like a sturdy thing, but it will improve under pressure—it is anti-fragile, like most biological systems are. Similarly, a mind that is exposed to stress that it can handle will become brighter and more resilient.)
I’d assume it falls on the anti-fragility curve?
If humans are perpetually underchallenged, they atrophy, and get worse. (Like a bone that is not used; it will become fragile, like an unused mind that will become forgetful.)
If they are significantly overchallenged, they break, and get worse. (Like a bone that snaps, or the mind that hits burn-out.)
Ideally, you want to target a level of work that is hard enough to be challenging, so you need to learn and grow, but still doable, so you have success experiences. (Like a bone that has frequent impacts that stress it, but not enough to break it, and that has sufficient supply of nutrients to fix itself; that bone will not just withstand the pressure, like a sturdy thing, but it will improve under pressure—it is anti-fragile, like most biological systems are. Similarly, a mind that is exposed to stress that it can handle will become brighter and more resilient.)