“This is Not For Me” — When Learning Novel Things
When most people learn something new, something unrelated to their expertise or skills, something very complicated, the first reaction is, this is not for me.
It can be programming if they’re a traditional business owner.
It can be Business Skills if they’re artists.
It can be Writing if they’re designers.
It can be Design if they’re writers.
What’s common between them is they don’t stay that much when they learn. They read an article and once they encounter some jargon or some expressions, they promptly say, this is not for me.
They don’t put in time to stay with what they struggle with.
They don’t stay however because of their ingrained belief that learning has to be fun, usually, that’s because they have fun learning more about their skills and areas of expertise. They presume that everything they’ll learn should be the same — easy and fun.
But when you learn something new, it’s unwise to expect it to be easy, at least at the outset.
It starts very very very very very hard, and then it goes very very very very hard, and then very very very hard, and then very very hard, and then very hard, and then hard, and then a little hard, and then it fades to its way until it becomes intuitive to you.
That’s the real expectation you need to adopt when learning something new to expedite your learning process.
