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I watched a bunch of educational tv shows about aging, brain damage and advancements in neuroscience that address memory loss, parkinsons and some less intense toxin buildups that affect brain function.
It said some interesting things about learning as a kid and how our society discriminates and underestimates the abilities of teenagers, even though there are plenty of experiments that show kids and teens learn much better than adults when exposed to the same learning environment. (Obviously both test groups had to be completely clueless about what they were being taught in the experiment, so the subject was obscure)
When you age learning becomes more difficult because there is less reward (brain stimulation in the form of electric jolts and hormone releases) It's assumed that evolutionary selection favored brains that adapted to being less flexible and saved calories by turning off inefficient processes with age.
People who still had those processes going on at an older age were studied and they learned totally new subjects better than people without those processes. Now those processes involve motivation to learn new things, increased dopamine reward for learning and as a result an outlook that favored learning and new experiences over concerns of the daily grind.
So it's interesting to see that Corvo2 says he has less time to devote to learning, that's why he doesn't learn as well. That might be a sign of the brain turning off some motivation for your learning endeavors.
And I can't figure out what you mean by being sensible to drawing and why you mentioned piano lessons. You mean math people can grasp drawing just like art people can grasp programming? I'm sure they can with considerable effort, but most people don't have the motivation to work through it, so those are rarer cases.