Use-it-or-lose-it tendency

What it is

Skills and knowledge fade unless practised, and fluency needs constant use.

Related

• Curiosity tendency bias
  Curiosity drives the practice that keeps skills and models fresh.
• Senescence-misinfluence tendency bias
  Keeping mental skills in use is the main defence against age-related decline.

Appears in

• Munger's 25 standard causes of human misjudgment#19: Use-it-or-lose-it tendency

References

• Wikipedia: Use-it-or-lose-it tendency en.wikipedia.org
• Munger's 25 standard causes of human misjudgment fs.blog
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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