Role models:
Every one wants to be Virat Kholi . Absolutely very few wants to be a mathematician. The main reason for this is because of the content virat kholi is celebrated - and entire nations sing his praises. Hell, you can even play as him on the games on a Playstation. A child who grows up watching content wants to be virat kholi.
Have you ever seen an urban child growing up WANTING to be a servant? The main reason for this is the way society and parents treat servants.
The path to walking effortlessly
Why is it that when a child learns how to walk, it falls many times along the way? The traditional education system we have encourages linear learning. First, you learn topic A, then topic B, then topic C, and so on. But a child who first learns to walk does not follow these steps. On some attempts, it barely gets upright. On some, it walks a full ten paces. The path looks somewhat like this:
Most importantly, I never sat down one day and committed to “I’m going to learn how to use the keyboard in 30 days”, nor did I enroll in a 4 year course to learn the keyboard. The point is, whether walking or skateboarding or typing, the process is “non-committal”. You learn in bits and pieces and through mistakes, rather than in one long stretch.
Mistakes are critical
This is how noobs explore the map in age of empires:
(this player has not found any resources)
This is how good players explore their map:
(this player has found 2 resources- iron and aluminum, you can see the light green and grey colored patches in the map)
What I’m saying is that you can only truly be an expert at a few subjects -- you can be reasonably good at many, but top 0.1% at very few. Choose wisely -- you cannot make too many maps in one lifetime, but the few maps that you make; you can explore those waters fully!
