Progress.

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals." - Martin Luther King Jr

Progress, the reason we succeed, the reason we fail. Sometimes motivation, sometimes it demotivates us. "If at first you don't succeed, try and try again" - this is progress in a sense, you cant jump into a pool of water and know how to swim, you need to learn everything before you can do it.

So does this mean math is like music and swimming because in the sense that you cannot complete your goal until you have the knowledge to do what you wish?

you cant write a fancy solo because you haven't learnt how to write music yet, you can only put down the basics, which would most likely be chords. You wont be able to change time signature, its like experimenting with Phi in math, you just don't know what it is yet, you can't adapt to using it. Phi being the golden ratio, or 1.61803399 to be precise, and it is found all over nature itself. 

Is everything in life an obstacle of some sort? A test? A hurdle only to knock us down?

With physics you cant jump in and tackle equations that look like this:

Schrodinger's equation.

You need to acquire a knowledge of mathematics and basic physics principals, like thermo and chromodynamics. We cannot do what we want in life with sacrifice.

Next time you think to yourself "I can't be bothered" remember this, your future could depend on that one instance of wellbeing, you could never get the chance to learn it again - and that is why you should cherish every moment you have to gain knowledge.

I wasn't feeling very 'science-y' today, but my next blog will incorporate more science! Please vote on out poll, thanks!

Thanks for reading, Ben.