this one is not a theoretical post, I am practicing. In other words: I am trying to learn something and I wonder if it is possible to learn something without pain?
I know the attitude of the learner has a relevant role on how each person deals with the learning process. This process implies to fall several times, to face frustration, to invest a lot of time and effort before see any tiny result. But is this painful process needed always?
Perhaps it is personality, because for example for me to be open to discover something or to listen new perspectives and try to understand them is enjoyable. Even if it implies effort to discover all that process, but I cannot compare that effort with the effort that implies to build a new habit or create a new skill. One is pleasure in a short term while the other is pain with hope of pleasure in a long run.
It gets worse if I have to unlearn and re-learn again. Yeap, what am I doing? This “life long learning” is not that easy.
Perhaps that is why persistence should be a good ally of learning, however at moments that persistence sounds more to masochism.
Oh well! I will keep on this….