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AMA | November 2021

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is It Worth It to Sometimes Grind to Get a New Level of Understanding?

There is no royal road to geometry, as euclid is reported to have said. If you find an entire field to be mostly chore than should you switch to another field where it seems like a lot more fun? You know, that's a more difficult, subtle question. So a hundred per centa we have to sometimes grind. We have to sometimes do chores. That's probably the answer i would give am,. but we have to be open to the fact that even that wouldn't give us the answer to this question that we're asking.

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