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However, this learned efficiency comes with a drawback in the form of negative transfer, a psychological effect whereby it becomes harder to learn something that is similar to something you already know how to do well. For example, a professional tennis player would have a harder time at first learning to play ping pong than someone who has never picked up a racquet before. This is also why it is harder to read other people's handwriting. Negative transfer happens because our brains and bodies need to un-train themselves from a familiar pattern in order to learn a new pattern that is similar to the old one.