| See also: How 'The Karate Kid' Ruined The Modern World (2010) https://www.cracked.com/article_18544_how-the-karate-kid-rui... "I think The Karate Kid ruined the modern world. Not just that movie, but all of the movies like it (you certainly can't let the Rocky sequels escape blame). Basically any movie with a training montage. You know what I'm talking about; the main character is very bad at something, then there is a sequence in the middle of the film set to upbeat music that shows him practicing. When it's done, he's an expert. ... Every adult I know--or at least the ones who are depressed--continually suffers from something like sticker shock (that is, when you go shopping for something for the first time and are shocked to find it costs way, way more than you thought). Only it's with effort. It's Effort Shock. We have a vague idea in our head of the "price" of certain accomplishments, how difficult it should be to get a degree, or succeed at a job, or stay in shape, or raise a kid, or build a house. And that vague idea is almost always catastrophically wrong. Accomplishing worthwhile things isn't just a little harder
than people think; it's 10 or 20 times harder." --- Effort Shock and Reward Shock (2014) https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/07/09/effort-shock-and-rewar... "The good news is what I’ve started calling reward shock. In some (not all) domains, it is more than enough to offset effort shock. When you overcome effort shock for a non-trivial learning project and get through it anyway, despite doubts about whether it is worth it, you can end up with very unexpected rewards that go far beyond what you initially thought you were earning. This is because so few people get through effort shock to somewhere worthwhile that when you do it, you end up in sparsely populated territory where further gains through continued application from the earned skill can be very high. Programming, writing and math are among the skills where there you get both significant effort shock and significant reward shock." |