Different Difficullties

 How hard is it to learn a new language, start a business, or write a book? These are common questions, but unfortunately the answers people give are not very satisfactory. The problem is that the term "difficulty" is woefully imprecise.

There are many different types of difficulties that are often lumped together in English, but they all have different causes and solutions. Depending on the difficulties you face, the correct course of act

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Difficulties

The difficulty of happiness and the difficulty of effort
The first distinction is whether the difficulty is primarily due to effort. If something is difficult, but the outcome depends less on effort, it depends more on luck.It's hard to win the lottery, but there's not much you can do to increase your chances.

People always confuse the two types when talking about difficulties. Building a well-read blog is difficult. But it's mostly a difficulty of effort, not a difficulty of luck.Yes - the success of an individual article depends heavily on luck. But if you keep experimenting and have patience over decades instead of weeks, the luck factor will balance out and it will mostly be a matter of hard work.

Learning a language is mostly hard work, not luck. Yes, some people are born with a little more language ability in their genes. But the real difference is how many hours you put in.