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This is a road to madness. If every time you wouldn't understand something you would just plunge into the material and get familiarized you would do nothing els
by bryanph_ 10y ago
This is a road to madness. If every time you wouldn't understand something you would just plunge into the material and get familiarized you would do nothing else for the rest of your life. I think Eno means managing ignorance in the way of making a decision on when to stay ignorant (whilst being aware of your ignorance) and when to learn and hence "fix" this ignorance.
- mastazi 10y ago> This is a road to madness How so? > If every time you wouldn't understand something you would just plunge into the material and get familiarized you would do nothing else for the rest of your life That's how I've been spending a significant part of my out-of-work time, for most of my adult life. Is there anything wrong with being a curiosity-driven person?
- cwsx 10y agoNot at all, some might call that a 'hobby'.
- steplee 10y agoThere's no way you could actually do this. Going an hour on a normal day you'd have a life time of material to learn so I agree yes it is madness. You can't learn thousands of years of engineering, math, science, etc.
- atemerev 10y agoMany lifetimes. It is of course impossible to absorb the sum of all humanity's knowledge. But it is possible to have a 30000 feet view of it (or perhaps a shitty satellite view obscured by clouds). And I would feel very uncomfortable if I didn't have at least a basic knowledge on how my environment works.
- mastazi 10y agoOf course you can't learn everything, but you can keep your curiosity alive and keep questioning reality, and search for explanations. To me, it's not about learning the whole corpus of human knowledge.
- Qwertious 10y agoKeyword is "basic", I think.