This concept of learning without effort and stress is, of course, completely alien to Torah study
“I wanna be an intellectual like you are.”
The father chuckles good-naturedly. “Great! But remember, you don’t become an intellectual overnight. You have to put in lots of time and effort and study, and then maybe you might become an intellectual.”
Well said, but the good professor is wrong. Time, effort, and study are so last-century and, as an intellectual might say, anachronistic. We are in a brand-new era. Apple has a new app which, they claim, will make you an “intellectual” in only 15 minutes a day with a no sweat, minimal effort. The app offers “key insights” from over 7,500 books on leadership and on personal development. This “no fuss, no stress approach to learning” can be done “in 15-minute reads,” and enables you to “learn while eating breakfast or walking the dog.” (These are not concoctions of a fevered brain, but actual quotes.)
Here is modern man in microcosm. He is in a hurry, has no time. Pausing, reflecting, thinking, investing time and energy in a worthwhile project — these are outmoded concepts. Welcome to mankind’s new frontier.
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