True understanding (or skill or effort) has become bothersome—an unnecessary headache that impedes our ability to get on with our lives (and most likely skip to something else). Earning the endgame seems so yesterday, especially when we can know whatever we need to know whenever we need to know it.
why flipping through music bins is good, and why spoilers are bad.
The point is, we should never underestimate process. The experience of the doing really is everything. The ending should be the end of that experience, not the experience itself.
Read more of the article here as well as an amusing anecdote about beating SMB II.
(link courtesy of Wired)
