Learning

Persistence is key to learning a new skill, the more difficult the skill is, more is the persistence required.

My daughter is turning 6 months on 16th, she is growing fast, these days she is learning something every waking hour, the one I would like to mention now is crawling. She is trying to crawl but keeps falling, but she seems to now quit, I see her trying every time I see her, I know she will succeed in a couple of days. She has already started upper and lower body movements required for crawling independently, she just needs to figure out how to use them in tandem to move forward.

Though we are genetically hard coded for persistence, in certain scenarios we don't direct our will to follow the code, as though we have become aware of our choices and we simply chose to be lazy.

This is a perspective that has developed over the last one month. I have been trying to learn new skills, these are Deep Learning - a subset of Artificial Intelligence and Graphics Design, to begin about a month ago, it was quite hard to concentrate for more than 1 hour, now I am able to do better than one hour.

The problem at hand now is difficulty and failure, these are completely new fields for me, though I did quit my job with the aim to get into the role I want to get into rather than what I was doing because I had no choice. The thing is choice is always with us who make them, sometimes the traditional route, the easy route.