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by jasonlotito 1055 days ago
In this context, learning something new is surprising.

> People do learn from mistakes.

Mistakes are surprises.

> Like I spend 90 minutes on lesson

Assuming this lesson is teaching you something you didn't know, that's the surprise.

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> Assuming this lesson is teaching you something you didn't know, that's the surprise.

There was some trick in calculus that makes it 1% more efficveint. Big deal but hardly surprise.