Do you sometimes find learning from more elementary textbooks stultifying?

[Simfish]

Do you sometimes find learning from more elementary textbooks "stultifying?"

And does this sometimes result in exceptionally slow learning when you read the more elementary textbooks, when you feel like you could learn much faster through more advanced textbooks?

I'm feeling this effect with quantum mechanics. In some sections at least, Griffiths seems to be very stultifying compared to the treatments I can find from Shankar and Cohen-Tannoudji.

 

[Klockan3]

I find it mostly that you want a text which says what you need to know. If you already know 80% of the things and just wants to find the 20% you don't know then you would want a more condensed book while if you haven't even heard about the subject before then you would want a book with a lot of text explaining what you actually do.