The flip side of "effort = success" is that if something didn't take much effort, it must be wrong. I remember when I first started to learn calculus in maths. The teacher spent a great deal of time stressing to us first of all that CALCULUS IS VERY HARD. Then he got down to explaining it. It didn't actually seem that difficult to me - and that was really confusing. Where's the catch? I must have missed something. I didn't get it. Three years later in university, I was doing an electronic engineering degree. Which depended heavily on guess what? Calculus. Sorry, no, it was THREE DIMENSIONAL calculus. My average exam mark at the end of the year was around 30% - nuff said, I think.
Years later I did a history degree at Edinburgh University. It was just the best fun, and I really loved writing my essays and finding out stuff. I'd thought about choosing a more vocational degree that fed me into a career, but I realised I'd probably just repeat what happened before. I decided to do a good job of what I wanted to do rather than a bad job of something sensible. Sure enough, not only did I finally succeed in getting a degree, I got a 2:1.
Sometimes, if something's easy, it's because you're talented.
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