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I don’t think so. Frustration usually leads to demotivation in context of studying a subject.

• marginalia_nu 5y ago
  Frustration is very much a mindset-problem though. In part, it's misaligned expectations, but also a learned behavior of giving up whenever something doesn't immediately give away. People have spent decades trying to solve difficult problems in mathematics and science. A big reason they didn't get frustrated and give up after 4 minutes was largely because they didn't expect it to be a 2 minute problem.
  • torstenvl 5y ago
    > Frustration is very much a mindset-problem though. In part, it's misaligned expectations... ...Like the kind you might get from a misleading Who This Book Is For section?
    • marginalia_nu 5y ago
      I honestly don't think that is the problem. Maybe it's school, kids are used to knowledge being drip-fed in a pedagogical fashion, which I guess is fine, but it's also far away from how learning happens outside of school. In the real world, it's normal to encounter problems that aren't trivial.
      • jhanschoo 5y ago
        If I learned stuff exclusively from my own real-world experience rather than from crystallized wisdom from books I'd be much less capable than I am today.