> Namely, that everyone feels that they're the dumb one in a room full of brilliant effortlessly successful people, and that if the coursework is not easy and a little boring you should quit because it only gets worse from here.
So I self-learned CS, my degrees were in applied math, and it was similar in the math world. Although more like:
"everyone feels that they're the dumb one in a room full of other dumb ones... "
But where I studied, we did receive that sort of lecture early on. That "a wall" as you've described it is normal, get used to it.
It's served me well, being comfortable with "not knowing" something. You could argue that it's something every student of ANY subject should be told but I guess many subjects are easy enough that simply working at X% effort is enough to never get stumped.
So I self-learned CS, my degrees were in applied math, and it was similar in the math world. Although more like:
"everyone feels that they're the dumb one in a room full of other dumb ones... "
But where I studied, we did receive that sort of lecture early on. That "a wall" as you've described it is normal, get used to it.
It's served me well, being comfortable with "not knowing" something. You could argue that it's something every student of ANY subject should be told but I guess many subjects are easy enough that simply working at X% effort is enough to never get stumped.