He’s fine. He looks fine. He jokes around. His Instagram’s curated. He replies, “I’m good,” without flinching. But he’s not. And June, Men’s Mental Health Month, passes by like background noise.

Everyone walks a different path in their life; some could have been interesting, some life choices can be beneficial, and some can be terrible.

This is the paradox at the heart of modern education: we often care more about what someone knows than how they came to know it. But what if the path the struggle, the curiosity, the method is actually more important than the end result? Let’s explore why how we learn may matter just as much, if not more, than what we learn.