It is a deep and harmful misunderstanding that learning should be fun. It rarely is. Learning should be meaningful.
To give a drastic example: if you think that learning to care for a dying relative can mostly be made fun, you might have a very strange personality. More generally, fun is really not the point of life.
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I said "most" precisely to avoid these. I am reminded of Feynman's "The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion". Perhaps, fun and compassion (under common defs) are the main components of what you call meaning.
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I will never understand the idea that meaning has anything to do with fun.
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But perhaps learning is the point. And if one learns more and better when one is having fun, one gets more meaning out of life. This seems like a simple glass half empty / full argument at this point.
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