This implies kindness and truth are mutually exclusive. They are not. You can kindly tell someone they're wrong, you can kindly tell someone they need to take better care of themselves, you can kindly tell someone that the law of gravity doesn't care if they think they can fly.

You don't learn anything at home?

And about themselves. We're super into tearing things down right now, not so much about actually building anything.

How has that affected the normal day to day of life, if at all?

Neither is offensive, but Qatar still lives in the 13th century.

It's always interesting seeing how obtuse the reddit crowd can be. "How can we twist and misunderstand the quote so that we can mock it and feel superior today?" I swear, some of these people are so blinded by contrariness that they'd be lucky to make a peanut butter jelly sandwich before giving up.

This quote is about your ability to learn, to persevere, and to eventually understand and master. It is about faith in your abilities long term. This is not about repairing a car on your first try.

More that we reward memorization over comprehension, which can look like a society of iteration, because we don't reward understanding first priciple thinking.