Learning is painless

The old generation will always complain that the new generation is too busy in learning. The new generation has more channels, more media, and more resources to learn, the old generation always instructs the new generation not to make full use of the resources they used to have. Can they blame them?

As the creation tools become more and more convenient, the role of the Creator has been transferred from a specific person to everyone. We can see from several examples that, publishing was once a special privilege for some people. With the convenience of today's tools and the popularity of the media, more people can enter the publishing field, they can also create their own ideas as entity texts and publish them to every corner of the world. The same thing happens in every domain, and the concept of painting changes from a stiff brush to a digital editing, more people can present their images in their minds. The low-cost learning of digital photography and photography allows more and more people to capture the scenes around them at any time.

The ease of use of creation tools enables more and more people to invest in creation. These people create more knowledge and lead more people to create more easy-to-use tools, the result is that the creative activity grows at an increasing multiple, and the knowledge expands at an explosive speed. Compared with the old generation, living in the new generation is happy and unfortunate. What is happy is that creation is so easy to implement, and the required knowledge and information are more readily available. Unfortunately, the knowledge and information around us are too rich, the speed of learning can never keep up with the speed of information growth.

Because the information around you is too rich, a dry mind is generated, because it is always filled with people who have already obtained knowledge, so that new learners think it is easy to learn, in order to satisfy these learner's desire for drying up, commercial knowledge providers always advertise slogans such as fast production, painless, and cost-free to promote the learning media and channels they recommend. Although learning does have different channels, it is applicable only to topics that are not applicable to personal entities, correct and incorrect learning directions, and so on, however, there is absolutely no fast, painless, cost-free, and other slogans. learners often only see the recommended slogans and accept such learning values.

Learning is definitely costly. It will not change because of new tools. learning is a process of seeking for directions, exploring channels, obtaining media, and absorbing knowledge, this process requires time and effort. As far as external tools are concerned, they do save time. However, there is no internal effort to help, the new generation cannot clearly understand this point. All they see is the standard language, and even the time is unwilling to spend. Let alone the effort, the old generation is actually blaming this. You need to know that learning is not painless, how much effort, how much time to pay, or even how much money to spend, how many times of disappointment, no hope to face it again, the joy of learning is there, but it is definitely a price.

When we look forward to the distant back of the masters, we always hope that there will be a shortcut to catch up with them, but in fact there is no such shortcut, the time spent by the Masters is what we have not paid yet. The spirit they have spent is what we have not invested yet. The troubles we have experienced in the middle are what we have never experienced and what we have gained. before they are willing to switch to knowledge, what we don't have is what we see. What we see is the glory of their backs, but the fog they face when they look forward, what we do is the path they have explored, rather than the path they are trying to explore.