effortful

At least there are enough differences that it would take some effortful study to become fluent in Clojure.

They don't so much learn language as acquire* it- it's not, generally, effortful.

I think that's the distinction that the analogy is going for -- the emulation going on is patching up some failures to do automatic effortless work by doing deliberate, focused, effortful work.

Navigating an Apple UI felt smooth and intuitive; never effortful.

I admire your dedication to working hard on physics, but I think that creative, effortful practice is the key, not relentless drill.

But offering that capability without it being a backdoor is costly and effortful enough that I don't really blame motherboard manufacturers for declining to do so on behalf of a rather niche use case.

Spaced repetition, testing effect, effortful learning, retrieval training, constructing mental models...

The main point is that effortful retrieval practice is the key to learning effectively for the long-term and such that what you're learning can readily be connected to other ideas.

Not effortful, but not seamless, either.

Secondly, the authors accept that effortful control (elsewhere called self-regulation - what you or I might think of as internalising the rules) has a large positive effect on children's behaviour.

It is actually cognitively effortful to disbelieve -- making research participants complete distractor tasks while having them discriminate between information marked, explicitly, as true or false causes them to be less accurate at judging.

I went back to the less effortful Django and Rails tutorials, which introduce everything you need, and tell you enough to know where to look when you want to try a plugin.

Your point is well taken, but "creative, effortful practice" also requires a foundation of creative and critical thinking.

We do need "hard effortful careful work" to keep planes flying, electrical grids running and medical devices safe.

First comes the drill; then comes the "creative, effortful practice".

The paper investigated "implicit sequence learning tasks in which optimal learning may in fact be impeded by the engagement of effortful control processes." (from the abstract) "Optimal learning" in the context of implicit learning is evidently desirable, and by extension, mindfulness-induced impairment of implicit learning is undesirable.