Now, as some of you may know, I've recently started doing the Year 12 textbook for Specialist Maths. Now, since I'm in Year 11, I don't need to do it. It's not like someone is forcing me to do it. It's just fun to learn the maths taught in that book.

Now, as some of you may know, I was doing it during my Adv. Gen. class. And I was perplexed. I didn't have the help of teachers, and while it wasn't beyond me, there was notation that I just didn't get. So, it was a bit of a problem for me. So, there I was, with a face full of confusion, and my teacher comes up and says,

"Don't look so confused! It'll put everyone off!"

And I wondered, when does something being hard put people off, even before they tried it? Sure, you may rage quit half way through, but you at least try it. For instance, take Dark Souls. It's hard as fuck. But it's enjoyable as hell. And while you may rage quit it later on in the game, it's still something you tried. It being hard didn't put you off. While I'm not too sure if that's true for everyone, I'm told the game looks fairly enticing. I mean, even take something that's a more distant goal, such as becoming a fantastic tennis player. It's going to be bloody hard, but no one's really moaning about how hard it'll be. But speak one word as to how hard Year 12 Chem will be and everyone cracks a shit.

When it comes to school, hard work seems to be universally hated. And I don't really see the reason behind this. Sure, Specialist is hard (not really, but let's pretend it is) but it sure as hell is fun.

And I'm not really sure where this stems from. I can only assume that since people associate work to be tedious, and hard work to be even more so, that they hate anything that's hard, even if it's one question.

But, I don't really know where this stems from. Where do you guys think it comes from?

Really short post today. Was playing D&D for 7 hours.