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I look at the desire to learn and absorb as no different than suffocation, thirst, hunger, and lust. They are pace-making signals from deep in our bodies and m
by saltcured 8y ago
I look at the desire to learn and absorb as no different than suffocation, thirst, hunger, and lust. They are pace-making signals from deep in our bodies and minds to keep us moving and living.
How can we be happy realizing we can never breathe, drink, eat, love, or learn it all...? By admitting that such an infantile goal is foolish and clumsy. Those are useful motivating urges, but they are not goals.
- gitgud 8y agoThat's a great way to look at it, learning as the moviation not the end goal. I feel I'm doing the opposite currently, trying to find new ways of developing and learning faster...
- shoo 8y agoMaybe a question to ask is why do you want to learn or develop faster? For its own sake, or for some other goal? One perspective (that I don't completely agree with) is that consuming information is an input, and is wasted effort until, perhaps at some later date, you use that information to produce some output.
- gitgud 8y agoVery true, I think learning is intangible in many ways as the outputs are hard to link to the learned inputs. Maybe I need to redefine a goal based on what I'm learning in order to target an output... Kind of like back-propagation in neural networks?