Second Letter: Don’t Let the Fear of What Is Difficult Paralyze You
Paulo Freiré · 2018
There is always a relationship between fear and difficulty. But it is obvious that in this relationship the subject also figures, a subject who is fearful of what is difficult, who fears the storm, who fears loneliness, or who fears not being able to overcome the difficulty in understanding the text or not being able to produce some intelligence of it. Studying is a demanding occupation, in the process of which we will encounter pain, pleasure, victory, defeat, doubt, and happiness. For this reason, studying requires the development of rigorous discipline, which people must consciously forge in themselves. The process of creating comprehension of what is being read is gradually built in the dialogue between the different points of view about the challenge. They also speak about how they play with the transition from one time to another in their stories and, finally, about how writers read themselves and how they read other writers.