Crossing the Threshold of the Frustration Barrier
- The resistance stage of culture shock occurs when a person realizes that achieving something they wish to learn or become takes time and effort.
- Itβs not a free ride. Take my experience with the game of Go, for example. I want to play, I understand why and how, but I also understand that it will take a considerable amount of time to train, which brings frustration.
- This is referred to by Kaufman as a frustration barrier.
- Itβs a phenomenon that reveals an uncomfortable truth: most things are not fun until you have obtained some decent skill.
- I enjoy playing Go, but I donβt like stumbling into stupid mistakes.
- I donβt enjoy the flow of stones in the second stage of the game, after the twentieth move.
- I am unskilled and clearly see this. Thus, why start something at which I am not good, especially when it takes time to become better?
- The same is true for note-taking. The majority of new note-takers look at what Iβve turned Obsidian into with awe and desire the same for themselves.
- Itβs okay to desire, but it took me almost three years of consistent note-writing to achieve this.
- Kaufman argues that you only need as much as twenty hours to become fairly good at something.
- 20 hours of deliberate practice of the basics is enough to cross the threshold of the frustration barrier.
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