Why Learning Isn't Cheating

Okay, you don’t know the four-letter name of that river in Germany that starts with E. You never will unless you look it up, and so that block of the crossword goes unfilled. You don’t know what you don’t know.

You effed around with a Rubik’s cube for hours without getting the basic concept of how to move a colored block from here to there.

Would you give yourself the same crap if you couldn’t figure out how to embed a video in a post? No. You’d read the instructions. Then you’d spend your time profitably by making the video look great.

Just because it’s called a puzzle doesn’t mean you can’t get hints. Or the basic concept of how it works. There’s a wide spectrum between giving up, frustration, challenge and success.

Allow yourself enough knowledge to move forward.

By the way, here’s the pdf of how to solve a Rubik’s cube. From the Rubik’s cube people. Because they don’t want you to throw the thing away. They want you to play with it, and learn it. Go play.