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That's a false equivalence and you know it.

The fact that you can somewhat improve your muscles doesn't change that some people need to put much less effort in or can recover fast enough to be able to put more effort in.

Same for brains. Except we don't know a way to improve a healthy brain's performance (*in a general way, ergo a way that transfers to other tasks).



Your original contention was

> Education helps channel cognitive ability into useful pathways, but you either have something to channel or don't.

You didn't say "some people have it easier than others", which I could agree with; hence my physical training analogy.

> we don't know a way to improve a healthy brain's performance (*in a general way

Yes we do - it's called education.




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