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We call STEM hard since most people fail to learn it to a passable level even when enticed with tons of money. You can try to explain away their failures to le
by username90 5y ago
We call STEM hard since most people fail to learn it to a passable level even when enticed with tons of money.
You can try to explain away their failures to learn in many ways, but the fact is that most people fail to learn STEM well enough to get a job doing it and instead they go to other fields considered less hard. You could say "They just didn't try hard enough" or "they just went into it with the wrong mindset" or "they just need to spend more time doing it" etc, but all of those things are signs that the field is hard.
- yomly 5y agoMaybe modern education sucks? Maybe money isn't the greatest motivator for learning something? Maybe earning decent money in return for your skill at a specific skill has a high bar. Have you seen how hard it is to make money as a musician or an athlete? Skill acquisition for something you don't have a good foundation in is hard. I have the perspective of being very good at a few things and spend the rest of my time learning new things some of which I suck at. I also know people who are in the top 0.0001% at things. Interestingly they find certain adjacent things super easy and other "easy" things very hard. It's all relative, but getting "pretty good" at something isn't as hard as much people realise in the grand scheme of things - I think the problem is not many people have ever gotten good at one thing: go deep to go broad