Re:What Does Saying That 'Programming Is Hard' Say, and Abou...
by telxos on Friday July 30, 2021 @06:43AM
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Piano is the best analogy to me.
If you sit down at a piano for the first time, the idea of ever playing a Chopin prelude seems almost impossible.
Of course it takes years of practice to gain competency, just like everything else in life.
This seems like a cultural flaw we have almost. We love to pretend people have all this effortless talent that they never had to work towards instead of putting value on the effort that got them to their level of mastery.
If you sit down at a piano for the first time, the idea of ever playing a Chopin prelude seems almost impossible.
Of course it takes years of practice to gain competency, just like everything else in life.
This seems like a cultural flaw we have almost. We love to pretend people have all this effortless talent that they never had to work towards instead of putting value on the effort that got them to their level of mastery.