> Materials that require more time and effort to 'get' They really don't. Each rung in the ladder takes about as long to step through as the previous. The cha

> Materials that require more time and effort to 'get' They really don't. Each rung in the ladder takes about as long to step through as the previous. The challenging/annoying/discouraging aspect is that a lot of research (especially in pure math) has so many rungs to step through. The truth is many of those aren't useful at all - distinctions invented purely for the sake of being able to say you invented something. Even when I was doing really "deep" research I could explain it to anyone by just dropping all the technical jargon and using goal oriented language instead. When I would do this most people would naturally try to reason about it in exactly the same way "researchers" would. The proof is they'd come up with the exact same solutions to the problems that were legit solutions, they had just already been discovered ie the low-hanging in fruit solutions.