"Hard to learn, easy to master" is the opposite of "[easy to learn, hard to master](easy_to_lear_hard_to_master.md)". This means that learning the skill almost IS equal to mastering it, i.e. not doing the thing well has to count as not doing it at all, or it must be impossible not to do it well, or learning the thing must be hard but then, after learning it, there is no longer any possibility of improvement, etc.
Examples are hard to come up with. Someone on the Internet said walking -- this makes sense but of course the example isn't perfect, children spend at least a few months mastering walking. Another possible example: drinking coffee while acceptably flying a plane -- this requires learning to fly a plane on an acceptable level, which is hard, but then a mastery in drinking coffee is easy to achieve.
## See Also
- [easy to learn, hard to master](easy_to_learn_hard_to_master.md)
- [easier done than said](easier_done_than_said.md)
