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Hardest things to Teach Yourself

When I was 16 I found it very hard to teach myself to stop wasting my time trying to explain to my parents how little they actually knew about anything.
Mr. Wright was a self-taught pilot. I can easily pilot a hot air balloon. How about a glider?
Social interaction is the hardest to learn as even direct observation provides false clues.
@Vegemite_Fighter

- About music -

In my opinion it is very important to learn things a way you don't lose interest. I read your whole text and I have to say I would have struggled a lot too if I would have tried to learn about harmony in such a dry theoretical way.

I am playing piano for 10 years. If I can help you we can chat. I am sorry that you experienced such rudeness in those communities. From my experience people that are rude no nothing about music. Because music is a language of emotions and love. If you only know hate you cannot be good at music in my opinion :) Look at it that way. Even if someone buys their sh** they did not understand what music is about. Also: I struggle myself with composing although I have a long education in music. It is something really hard to do, even more if you try to do it the way you did.

"I cannot think of anything that would be harder to teach yourself. At least in chess there is a rating to measure progress; in music there is no clear way of seeing progress."
I disagree with that. You have nothing to measure, but you have ears. You know what sounds good and what does not. You have a constant feedback. You don't have that during a chess game. You can analyse it afterwards. In music you decide every second what you could change and are punished or rewarded immediately. Of course it depends how good you are at doing that, it is easier for some people.

- In general -

But yes we live in a generation where a lot has be done by yourself and many people only care about themselves. People expect from you to learn a lot yourself. It would be great if we had more time helping each other out. This is what made humanity successful in the first place.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. Yes, we should discuss this. I would love that. After I recover from a 3 and a half hour game though! Obviously after the bad experiences that I mentioned it is awesome to be able to discuss this constructively.
As a young lad I taught myself Newton's laws of motion by falling out of every tree within a one kilometer radius of our home.
The only thing that I know about physics. That physics = this guy who [believe it or not] was a real physics Professor. I know that it looks like a parody lol. He also appeared in 80's chocolate bar commercials [natural forces and energies do the work :)]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vudODqC1duw
If you can make yourself understand Zeno's arrow paradox and don't let yourself be intimidated by a bunch of speach impaired fishwives with a A for math, you stand a good chance. In my days the right kind of information was hard to find, but these days it's everywhere.
@Hayabusa800 Zeno was right in this case.

The arrow remains static in space-time, because space-time is a geometric entity ( manifold ) everlasting and unchangeable. Space-time was never born and never created. It just exists with everything on its surface, like a cube or a sphere.

You can ask any respectable scientific forum for the validity of these words. Just stay away from the idiots of Lichess off-topic forum.

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