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pixx

This thought brought to you by years of discussion with other people where I have slowly realized just how many people have chosen not to even try pursuing their interests due to years of *lies*.

For every person who genuinely cannot learn algebra, there are *hundreds* who had the wrong teacher (not necessarily a *bad* teacher, just not the one that they needed).

Has any musician ever told people that learning music is hard?

Has any writer claimed most people aren't good enough to try?

26 Jul 2023 at 20:17 | Open on merveilles.town
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pixx

This is an important notion to me on a personal level.

Many of my projects, I started before i understood how hard they were *supposed* to be - and then, once I saw the rising difficulty ahead of me, I just... stopped trying.

This was wrong, but I tend to think I'm smart, but not *arrogantly* so - if a lot of smart people are telling me that something's going to be hard, who am I tell them otherwise?

I'm understanding now why arrogance and humility are *both* considered important traits.

26 Jul 2023 at 20:22 | Open on merveilles.town
grimmware

@pixx I feel like the difficult thing to hone in on is not necessarily self-belief (although it is critically the first step) but the delivery of self-belief producing results along the way to your chosen destination.

As an example, I used to choose monolithic projects that were outside of my skill set which didn’t necessarily have iterative successes along the way, or alternatively I would not choose projects with a focus on learning rather than result.

Take for example I’ve been wanting to learn more assembler but I know I only really learn things when I have a material goal I want to achieve. I’ve just discovered that I can’t access the RTC on my Z80 retrobrew from MBASIC so I need to rewrite my moon phase clock in Z80 asm.

At the core of that is knowing (as you alluded to) how I learn, and how that is not the same as everyone else learns and critically not the same as most people teach.

@pixx I feel like the difficult thing to hone in on is not necessarily self-belief (although it is critically the first step) but the delivery of self-belief producing results along the way to your chosen destination.

As an example, I used to choose monolithic projects that were outside of my skill set which didn’t necessarily have iterative successes along the way, or alternatively I would not choose projects with a focus on learning rather than result.

27 Jul 2023 at 10:21 | Open on hellsite.site
grimmware

@pixx I suppose in that sense the best way to approach learning is often to ask yourself what is the most achievable thing you can do that will make you feel like you’re making progress. It’s a continual game of motivational hacky sack

27 Jul 2023 at 10:24 | Open on hellsite.site
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