#48 Solve a Rubik's cube ✔

So, I solved it, I followed an online tutorial, but I solved it. The thing is, I didn't just solve it though. I did my best to remember each and every step in full detail. Every time I completed a step correctly, I messed up the cube and did it again, and again, and again, until that step stuck. The reason being is that I didn't just want to solve it. One of my main goals in life is to attain as much knowledge as I possibly can, to be an intellectual, to constantly give my brain a workout. Yes, it would be great to say I solved the Rubik's cube, but I wouldn't have done it on my own. And so, by memorizing all the steps, learning the algorithms, and building a knowledge of the body of the cube itself, I am able to instead say, I have learnt the Rubik's cube, I know it, and I understand it, and am now able to solve it forever and ever each and every time that I try. And so, even now having solved it, I continue to undo it and redo it, so the knowledge sticks and so that I can continue to adapt to the mind of the Rubik's cube and solve it whenever.

Which, saying this, I feel is the way we should treat anything that we do in life. Don't just do something for the sake of doing it. We should do all things with proper intent, with a goal, for a reason. And if we truly want to do that thing, or achieve that certain result we must adapt to the struggles that life might impose on us and keep going, learning the algorithms of life and it's curveballs. Plus, I think life is far more fun and full when we live it in this manner. Learning all we need to about a topic rather than just to say we did. As to a further example, I've been playing the guitar since the age of 16, I am now 26, and can play several songs, I know many chords, and yet, I refuse to say that I KNOW how to play the guitar because I feel that I don't. I refuse to say this until I have at least learnt the bloody F chord (which I avoid like the plague, funny cause the Coronavirus right now is sort of like a plague... and any of the bar chords now that I think of it). And until I have learnt several riffs and fingerpicking styles. Until then I do not know that I truly know the guitar. It's a process. All things in life are a process. We must enjoy it, learn as much as we can from it, and then be able to say "I know this", "I can do this".

And also, what's the point of learning something, or gaining a new skill, when you're just going to forget it, what a waste of time, what a waste of life. It's like school, I never really learnt much there and I forgot the majority of the things I did "learn" there. And funnily enough, look back and see it as a waste of my time, because hey, I didn't really learn or gain much there. But that's because the education system wasn't made for people like me, but that's an entirely different topic. The point is, I love learning, and when I learn something I love, it sticks and I want it to stick. So, find the things you want to stick and learn them until they do! And don't forget to do all things with intent.