system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Avatar] Why can't the avatar learn the four styles of bending through the avatar state?

Why can't his/her past lives teach the new avatar how to bend the elements?
gpt
The avatar can and does, but its most subconscious.

The avatar learns bending faster the normal students while he's normally considered a bending prodigy (because he's the avatar) Avatar Roku sums it up by saying, "You've already mastered the elements before."