What does this quote mean to you? "Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty"*

it means that without effort or difficulty everything is meaningless. life is all about passing tough situations and difficult times but when you solve it easily, it becomes unimportant for you. in order to receive something, you need to pjt effort to that work. Our effort and our pain shows us and builds new. This is the meaning of life? why do you live? To overcome the challanges of life. For example, if you want to buy a car, you should earn money by going to work on time and completing tasks on time. this is what effort means.

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion