Nothing Good Comes Easy, Learning Can Be Both Easy And Hard

Nothing Good Comes Easy, Learning Can Be Both Easy And Hard.

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Each time I see Hive Learners Motto; "Learning Never Ends," I smile, I can't count the number of times, it spurred me to embrace corrections that seem to be hard on me and keep pushing. Learning is a continuous process, it's something we can never exhaust. It begins from childbirth until death.

No matter your height in life, you still have so much to learn

One thing I love about life entirely is the fact that whatever it throws our way, ends up teaching us something.

Learning can be both simple and difficult depending on whether we once had experience with what we want to learn or not. When we are faced with things that we have no prior knowledge of, learning becomes difficult at first then subsequently gets easy.

And when it's something we have little knowledge of, it makes the whole thing very easy even from the beginning.

Whatever the case may be, what makes people learn amongst many others is persistence and hard work. Whether a thing is very easy for you to learn or not, if you don't persist and commit yourself to it, you will never learn.

Last year, I followed my neighbor to their farm during planting season. My parents don't have any farm but my grandfather has, funny enough we only go to his farm to harvest crops, I have never gone during the planting period.

When we got to the farm, I thought it was maize we were going to sow because I am familiar with planting maize, two seeds per hole, and a Little distance.

I already picked a cutlass waiting for them to give me some maize seed to start planting but I was given guinea corn. Ha! I told their Mother "Ma, I have never planted guinea corn before." She looked at me with her mouth agape. "For real? Don't worry you will learn," She replied.

In response, I said, "Okay, show me how to do it," She laughed and then planted a few ridges. After that, she asked me to try it out.

I did it wrongly at first then started getting it right. Did you know that in the end, I planted more than all of them? My speed, spacing, and accuracy were something else. The woman was like you are a fast learner, I just laughed and said "Thank you Ma, you are a good teacher."

A few weeks later, my mom got a farm and decided that she was going to sow guinea corn. When we got to the farm, she was surprised at the way I was planting it because she knew I had never done it before. She asked where I learned it from and I told her from our neighbor.

The Difficult Experience.

Before I started Hive, I was someone who didn't know much about crypto and digital things as a whole. Most times when I am discussing with people and they start talking about crypto or anything online I shy away.

I tried them a few times and seriously, they were not just giving me the vibes I wanted. It took my friend @ovey10 a very long time to convince me to join Hive. Part of the reason was because I thought I wouldn't cope. My mentality then was that anything digital was not just for me. To God be the Glory, I joined and it was not as tough as I thought it was.

Some months back I wanted to learn how to convert Hive into my local currency. My big boss @dwixer was ever willing to help.

He took his time and guided me through my first transaction. I won't lie, it was like he was doing magic, whenever he asked if I understood I said "yes," in order not to discourage him but seriously I was so confused.

After the first transaction, I came to try it the second time alone, and guess what? I didn't know where I took the coin in the Binance App.

I had to call him to help me out again and he gladly did. And he told me something, "Take your time, and keep practicing, you will be good at it with time." I needed his advice and it worked.

Although it took me about 15 to 30 days to be able to master how to convert Hive into my local currency. At some point I almost gave up but thank God for my stubborn heart I kept trying even when I failed and eventually, I got it.

Both experiences made me understand that if I don't give up on a thing, no matter how bad I am at it, I'll surely get it right in the end, although i need to be interested in learning it.