I play competitive Scrabble and i can't seem to learn anymore. Strategy is a weakness. I make the same mistakes over and over. I make errors in points of strategy that i have known for 15 years.

I've just recently taken up listening to classical music and i am memorizing the pieces okay. I've just started using my oven in earnest and i've learned that okay.

It's just Scrabble. I wonder if it is the meds? Or the bipolar? Or my age -- i'm 51. Or maybe i am just not that clever and have reached the highest level of mastery possible.

It worries me because i started studying with a Scrabble expert online and i don't want to waste his time. I also don't want to frustrate myself doing something futile. It's not that i don't have the information; it's that i can't apply it.

Maybe it's the old adage: jack of all trades; master of none. Maybe i can just build a junior level of mastery of skills but that's all. I had to abandon knitting because i couldn't learn the more complex stitches...

Anybody else have trouble refining skills?