Mountains of work is what learning looks like as an adult.
The bigger the mountains look, the more you will learn.
If you know Python, learning another library looks like a bump in the road because you already have an adult level of proficiency that was built over a lifetime.
Learning to dance ballet looks like an impassible wall to most adults, because we know that competent ballet dancing requires years of training. And forget about virtuosity.
Adults tend to limit their learning to "new Python libraries."
Because one thing is for sure, most of learning to dance ballet will involve sucking at dancing ballet. And probably all of it unless you are lucky.
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But, for me, there's a difference between wishing I was better at things like mathematics and wanting proficiency in things like mathematics.
The difference comes from my actual interest in mathematics. My equilibrium state is quenched curiosity regarding mathematics. I learn about mathematics in proportion to my current curiosity.
If I wanted to get good at making loops with Processing, I would just start trying to make loops and letting myself be bad at it. I wouldn't study mathematics. I would play.
Unfortunately there's also bodies. I have proficiency in several martial arts, but I haven't really trained for over a decade. So I figured I'd go to a training. Now I'm able to hold myself together, it just takes a long time to recover.
2 weeks, to be precise, until my back stops hurting. My hand (yes I made a mistake) took over a year.
Mountains of work is what learning looks like as an adult.
The bigger the mountains look, the more you will learn.
If you know Python, learning another library looks like a bump in the road because you already have an adult level of proficiency that was built over a lifetime.
Learning to dance ballet looks like an impassible wall to most adults, because we know that competent ballet dancing requires years of training. And forget about virtuosity.
Adults tend to limit their learning to "new Python libraries."
Because one thing is for sure, most of learning to dance ballet will involve sucking at dancing ballet. And probably all of it unless you are lucky.
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But, for me, there's a difference between wishing I was better at things like mathematics and wanting proficiency in things like mathematics.
The difference comes from my actual interest in mathematics. My equilibrium state is quenched curiosity regarding mathematics. I learn about mathematics in proportion to my current curiosity.
If I wanted to get good at making loops with Processing, I would just start trying to make loops and letting myself be bad at it. I wouldn't study mathematics. I would play.