RE: Strong desire to understand.
September 13, 2016 at 2:45 am
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2016 at 2:46 am by bennyboy.)
(September 11, 2016 at 5:56 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: How strong is your desire to understand? Do you struggle to agree with what you do not understand? Do you feel like you need to understand everything? Do you hate condescension?
Wondering how many peeps can relate to this.
When I turned 13, my father gave me a book on assembly language programming. It pissed me off-- I read everything, but couldn't run code to see what would happen because I was visiting my grandparents' house at the time. I had to imagine it. I read and re-read that whole fucking book about a hundred times. I had nightmares about it. It was like try to learn Greek.
But when I got home, I typed in my first assembly-language program, written purely in my imagination, and it ran the first time; if anyone has studied assembly language, you'll know that was a truly legendary achievement for a boy of that age. So yeah, I can say that not knowing something I want to know is like the world's worst mosquito bite. It will completely take over my life for weeks, and there's really nothing I can do about it. But that obsession leads to the best things I'm capable of achieving, so it's worth it.
