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by wakawaka28 209 days ago
Even in the most interesting fields, 95% of everything is boring work. That even goes for the individual tasks. Found a good physics problem? Well, you might be excited about it but 95% of solving it is going to be thinking about assumptions and doing rote mathematical manipulations. You are likely to get sick of it before even getting to any answer, much less the right one. There are also many important/useful fields that are not very interesting.

In a sense, the most important thing school does is to build up within students a tolerance of boredom and an appreciation of the fact that most work is potentially boring.
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Razengan 209 days ago
> Even in the most interesting fields, 95% of everything is boring work.

You can plow through boring work if the end goal is exciting. For example, when developing a game that you yourself want to play :)

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wakawaka28 209 days ago
Most people are not like that. Even playing video games will be boring, if it's your JOB. Much more so if you need to do hundreds of hours of cerebral work to get to the point where you can have a little fun lol...
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Razengan 209 days ago
> Most people are not like that.

Not that most people like games, but everyone has their own goal, even if they haven't discovered them yet, even if it's just to chill in a nice place and do nothing all day, they can still find better ways to be lazy! (build better furniture, explore the search for the ideal climate etc.)

What is with all this defeatist give-up-by-default attitude? There's NO fucking way that the current common system of human education, which has been pretty much the same for hundreds of years, is perfect.

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wakawaka28 209 days ago
I'm just being real. If admitting that life is a hell of a lot of work makes me defeatist, so be it. The current system of human education is "only" several hundred years old, but that is long enough to see what works and what doesn't for the most part. What sure as hell doesn't work to reach success and provide for society is to loaf around aimlessly as if we don't know what skills are useful for modern life.
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