Learning is not for the genius, as there are really none!

So, recently I have doing quite alot of reading about memory and learning, and I must say that so far I am baffled at the realities of the world inside our skulls and outside. Research has shown that the difference between a chess grand master and a novice player is in their ability to recall the board setup. If a board is shown to a grand master and a novice, chances are the grand master would be able to recreate 90% to 100% of the board, but the recall rate drops to around 40-60% for a novice on average. So, this might make you believe that the grand masters are super human, but the reality is that they are every bit human, just trained ones.

Why is volunteering so complicated?

Open source communities are often very strict in their adherence to basic principles of communication as without such rigorous, yet limited, rules the general goal of the projects would never be achieved since the maintainers would banging their heads together to just understand what others are trying to do, integrating alien code would be out of question. Although this creates a threshold which prevents total noobs from entering the community, it also works as a weed out process to let the most motivated to pass through and join the herd.

Fear of failure.

All my life I have always strived to travel the longest path because it always helped me distinguish myself from everyone else; now that I look back, it has been tremendously beneficial for me as it I always had a much clearer vision than those who opted for a quick escape down the rabbit hole. This is the story of myself, hidden away in the cracks of time, when I was naive and willing to risk it all to reach enlightenment.