It Hurts

Real growth is painful.

You spend months or years comfortable with how you understand something, and then you run into actual knowledge.

It's that deep, aching realization that you've been oblivious, unaware, shallow, or lazy.

And so your initial reaction is to resist, and look for excuses, and deflections, trying to save the bubble from bursting. It's too comfortable to leave, and the outside world is too scary. Or so we think.

But, just like our physical muscles feel sore after a good session, our mental muscles also need to feel sore,

If learning doesn’t leave you feeling like farmland being tilled and aerated, then consider whether it is education…or just entertainment wearing a lab coat, arms crossed, trying to look serious.