The Prize at the Bottom of the Cereal Box
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★WISDOM is a prize only available to people willing to work to find it. Many kids have the memory of prizes in the cereal box. The prize would always be at the bottom. Many a child would go digging around in the box but be told by their mother to take their hands out. There was this understood rule among parents that children could not just reach in and pull out the prize but had to eat their way to the prize. The prize could not be enjoyed without eating the cereal first. The prize would only be available to the child who did the job of eating first. The prize at the bottom of that cereal box would not be easily attainable!
The point
Wisdom, like a prize at the bottom of a cereal box, requires effort and persistence to attain. There are no shortcuts to true knowledge.