H. Why do we learn more in pain?
Pain is the only teacher(scientifically), because Neuroplasticity is maximum under pain, and minimum while one is not suffering in pain. The problem of today’s education and healthcare is precisely that. There is no education when one is in pain(illness), and there is no health while one is going through education.
The brain doesn’t deal with information. The brain deals with context. There are only two contexts in the brain, rewards, and punishment(pain). There is no immediate reward in the education system. It is a possibility of a good future. This very phenomenon puts the brain into a “Hope” mode, rather than a reality mode. And when a brain is subjected to prolonged hope, it compensates with “Worry. (Fear of the unknown about the things that can go wrong)”
No one knows what to do with Ohm’s law, because no one has to use it in a day to day life, and thus brain doesn’t care. Put the brain for a long into things it doesn’t care and slowly the brain stops caring about you.