Most People Don’t Realize They Can Climb Skill Trees

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Most people don’t realize they can systematically climb skill trees.

They try a bunch of random stuff in random order, inconsistently, see little progress, and give up quickly.

They think they can’t climb the tree when really it’s just that they can’t reach a tall branch directly from the ground.

They don’t realize that every skill tree has a tree trunk and lower branches that you have to climb first before you can reach the higher branches.

They don’t realize it’s a tree. They just think it’s some nebulous dispersed either of scattered things that they either can or can’t do.

They hit ceilings and think those ceilings are locked in place, impossible to break through, it either comes naturally to you or it doesn’t.

Sometimes they realize this later in life, by chance, when picking up a new hobby or learning a new language or getting serious about work or having to teach someone.

And then it dawns on them that systematically climbing a skill tree is a generalizable approach, and they think about all the time they’ve wasted standing on the ground jumping at the highest branches of skill trees and doubting their ability to reach it, when all they had to do was climb.

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