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Learning is Frustrating

Mar 21, 2024

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Exploring the frustrations of learning and growth, the podcast emphasizes the importance of embracing challenges as a crucial part of the learning process. Drawing parallels to lifting weights, the episode highlights how overcoming difficulties is essential for progress and perseverance.

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Feeling frustrated while learning is a natural part of growth and progress, indicating that one is on the right path towards gaining knowledge and capabilities.

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Learning is Frustrating But Essential

Learning, especially for kids, can be overwhelming and exhausting as they navigate life lessons and academic knowledge. Dr. Becky emphasizes that the feeling of frustration when learning is actually a sign of progress and growth. It's crucial for both kids and adults to understand that frustration is a natural part of the learning process, indicating that they are on the right track towards gaining knowledge and capabilities.

Understanding the Frustrations of Learning and Growth

4min

Being a kid is tough. It’s tough because they’re learning—often by painful trial and error—an endless number of lessons about life. What they’re allowed to do and not. What happens when you touch something hot. How other people act. What feels good and what doesn’t. Plus they’re also in school learning academic knowledge too—math and science and reading and history.

Well, here’s a piece of advice from the great Dr. Becky (from her amazing book Good Inside) that we can translate to our kids, but also to ourselves:

Things are tough, things are frustrating because we’re learning, we as parents, them as kids. It’s fun to learn but it’s also exhausting. It’s supposed to be this way, just as lifting weights is supposed to make you sore. It’s the price you pay to get the thing you want—which is to learn, to be smart, to be capable, to get the hang of this life thing.

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