All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

— Juvenal

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Everyone wants to have learned something, and almost nobody wants to be in the middle of learning it. The price is boredom, confusion, being visibly bad at a thing, and hours that produce no visible result, and those costs get paid daily for a long time. The wish is free and constant. The willingness is rare, and it is the entire difference between people who know things and people who mean to.

Name what you genuinely want to understand and work out what the actual price is in hours per week. Pay one instalment this week rather than continuing to want it.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What would you have to give up to actually learn it?

MORE IN LEARNING & CURIOSITY

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.