Learning is messy.

One reason why learning is messy is that you often make mistakes in the process of learning, and another reason is that learning is often a creative process. For more about the messy minds of creative people, see this article by Scott Barry Kaufman in the Scientific American blog: Creativity Is Much More Than 10,000 Hours of Deliberate Practice. Creators are not mere experts. Instead of deliberately practicing down an already existing path, they often create their own path for others to follow.

Learning is messy.

(cheezburger)