Learning is Fun

The question at hand today, is learning fun? Can learning be fun? Well the simple answer in my mind is yes. There is fun in learning, for example, if you play sports then playing the game you love is fun, if you have a favorite subject in school you find it interesting and fun, or you could be a devoted musician and you find fun in learning how to play a new song or instrument. Whatever it may be the simple answer is yes there can be fun in learning. I'm an athlete and I love playing sports in general but nothing beats football, or comes close in comparison of fun. I also find math fun. You are probably laughing saying you think math is fun? Yes, I do find math fun it took me all of my high school career and now in my first semester of college to realize I find math fun. It's fun to be given a problem and failing at it so many times until you get it right. One more last surprise, I am not a musician but I have played guitar for a couple months. Well not a couple months but anyway the point is the three things I find fun all bring their own challenges. You can't say oh I like watching football on television I'm going to go try out. Well you could do that but you probably won’t get the results you were expecting. Football brings its fair amount of challenges and failures, but if you love something so much no matter how many times you fail you keep trying. We find great satisfaction when we finally figure out the answer to the problem or accomplish the task at hand. Same thing with math. You can't just walking in ad know everything there is to know about math. It takes time and a lot of practice to become decent at math, once you figure out and understand the concepts that is when math is fun. You can start looking at problems differently and see if there are different ways to get the same answer. That is when the fun begins is when you are able to experiment. Last but not least, learning how to play guitar is fun begin able to express yourself with music is always fun. Learning new songs to play for family, friends, and girl’s haha, but music really relaxes me and learning how to play is a struggle. I'm not the best guitar player, probably not even halfway decent, but it’s the failure and problems that make it fun. I can play a couple chords that don't make any sense to a person who is well involved with music. But the point is when you can take something you love no matter how horrible it may seem, if you really enjoy it you can make learning the important things about it fun. I believe you make it fun in your own way if you choose to do so. I look forward to math because I can make it fun, you can do the same if you try hard enough. So the next time you find something that sparks your interest whether its school related, sports, music, food, cars, etc., you can make learning it fun.