The Bitter Truth of Learning: It’s Tough, Unpleasant, and Often Pointless
This just in, water is still wet and cows moo. I don&#x27;t get the profoundness here. I mean, if you&#x27;re one of those stereotypical hollywood jocks from the 50s that&#x27;s never read a book in his life until the age of 60...I mean sure... you found a &quot;bitter truth&quot;. Yea, learning at a level beyond your local pub&#x27;s trivia tournament or beyond the 5 minute youtube tutorial video is difficult and takes time. Most importantly, it takes effort. Always has been, always will be... until we get the Matrix style brain downloads to learn kung-fu. No one great in any field, that&#x27;s worth looking up to, just dances around saying it&#x27;s as easy as ordering a big mac from mcdonalds. They have more self-doubt and introspective analysis in an hour than most of the population has in a month, myself included.<p>Plenty of dead ends too when it comes to the path of greater knowledge. Learning and doing new things that you never needed for your goal. Welcome to scientific research of any caliber in any field. If you&#x27;re lucky, you recorded the Earth shattering kabooms though. If it were easy to be &quot;smart&quot;, then don&#x27;t you think everyone would be &quot;smart&quot;. Obviously we all define the terms smart, educated, learned, intelligent and !dumbass differently. But (I hope) you get the point of the context.<p>Anyways, I&#x27;m sure as shit late to the party by a few thousand years (at least) saying this since I&#x27;ve been hearing this from the time of... I don&#x27;t know, forever in any field I gandered into more indepth. To recognize someone else as above average, or at least capable, they have humility and diligence towards educating themselves. Not complaining that it is difficult, but striving towards it because it is difficult. Most of us have heard similar at the projectile level of ad nauseum. Now I&#x27;m thinking it&#x27;s not really said enough if people still think &quot;learning is hard&quot; after the age of 9 is news worthy. Getting really tired of teens with their &quot;unique profound insight&quot; that&#x27;s been published since Socrates&#x27; time.