I enjoy the material, and think a lot of it is downright interesting. However, I would still much rather watch TV or play video games or hang out with my friends. You?
Yes I do as long as it’s challenging. CFA is challenging so I was able to motivate myself for level one and will be able to do the same for level two in a few months. Of course watching game of thrones or playing ps3 is better!
When I was studying for CFA, I decided I’ll pick up investment classics as soon as I’m done with the program and make reading at least 1 book per month my habit. I passed level 3 in 2011 and still ‘thinking’ about that. I envy people who can read for fun, I waste countless hours watching TV series, movies, anime etc. 
Nobody likes the solitary drugery of studying. Just like no writers really like writing.
A lot of people like having studied.
I don’t think this is necessarily true. We all have days where the last thing we want to do is pick up a book. However, I think if you really enjoy the material it is not a chore. The same goes for writing. Once studying or writing becomes an obligation, then it can lose some of its luster.
It’s hard to start studying because I’d much rather watch TV or drink. Once I start studying though I feel smart and continue to study until I finish whatever my goal was for that day, like working out…I always work out, it’s hard to pick myself up after work and go to the gym, but once I’m there and working out I feel great.
Well studying for the CFA is an obligation, at least if you signed up for the exams.
If all you wanted to do was acquire the knowledge tha the CFA gets you, all you need to do is go to the library and get all the CFA series of books. You don’t really need to spend any money at all (or register for the exam) to learn the material if that’s all you really wanted to do.
I disagree because becoming a CFA Charterholder is a worthwhile goal and thus not an obligation if you see the benefit for your career. There are some jobs where it is a requirement and thus I could see it feeling like an obligation to those folks. I agree that it would be hard to be motivated to study the CFA curriculum if there wasn’t some type of payoff, but I don’t think that was my argument at all. There are pieces of the CFA curriculum that I would read in my free time without it feeling like a chore. I study baseball statistics and metrics in my free time. This never feels like a chore to me and there isn’t a payoff at all.
the “no fun” of studying comes from opportunity cost. I enjoy learning new things,
But asking me to give up time I could be doing other stuff I enjoy is what makes it not so fun anymore.
I dont like the studying aspect so much, but I do enjoy doing the practice problems/exams. I like thinking through all that stuff, way more than trying to read verbose texts.
I enjoyed studying and almost every aspect of it, i do not enjoy failing CFA exams of course, only because i have to wait a whole year and it’s a huge time investment to retake.
Other than that, i don’t mind tests and exams because i do feel that they are integral for solidifying your knowledge.
Then again, everything is dependent on the subject. I would say finance is not my number 1 favourite subject but i do it for work and to feel “smart”.
I enjoy pretending to study
To itera you listen.
I enjoy learning. I really love it, in fact.
I did not like having to spend afternoons, evenings, and weekends away from my family and house, not getting to see my baby girl, not getting to go on vacation with her (because it was the week before the test), missing football games, missing Memorial Day, and any other fun stuff that people wanted to do because I had a self-imposed mandatory test deadline of June 1.
^ Greenman definitely does, that’s why he studied 300 hours more than he needed to for level 3.
maybe not, he only passed barely
I hate studying–that’s why I only did it once. I made for darn sure that if I failed the exam, it wasn’t going to be because I didn’t put enough hours in.