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I love this and yet it brings up a conundrum for me: explorative learning seems to be more effective, and yet people seem to want prescriptive learning. I see

I love this and yet it brings up a conundrum for me: explorative learning seems to be more effective, and yet people seem to want prescriptive learning. I see a lot of people, myself included, clicking on the "how to" links, even though they almost never help me. I've seen this struggle with self-help books even more so. Any suggestions on how to make explorative learning more sexy in marketing? Oh no, I just asked for a prescription! Perhaps I should just explore and figure out what works for me lol. Again, I find when I explore and play with different solutions, I learn MUCH faster and more appropriately. Anyway, grateful to have read this tonight to remind myself to stop reading so much stuff. Reminds me of reading a book by David Deida, I think The Way of the Superior Man, and in one chapter he said that we have all the answers we need within ourselves and then I paused and asked myself, "So why am I reading this book again?" Thank you for this spark tonight :-)

gbasin 6y ago
Glad to hear it. Enjoy your journey!
baddox 6y ago
Consider that “here’s how to do explorative learning” is also prescriptive. I tend to think of exploration as just exploring everyone else’s prescriptions, testing them, and seeing what appeals to me and whatever my goals may be. In that sense, I don’t think prescriptions are bad. I still think explorative learning is that way to go, but you need to have something to explore.
- jimkleiber 6y ago
  haha well said :-)
SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
Some things are better learned prescriptively. Like what's legal in a given area: exploratory learning by trying things and getting arrested repeatedly is a bad plan. Other things are better learned through exploration. There's no one-size-fits-all strategy.
- jimkleiber 6y ago
  Ah, fair point! I really like that example, especially for legal aspects. I think I perceive the world to be so focused on prescriptive learning that I lean too far in the other direction to try to re-balance, without saying that it's about bringing things back into balance. Thank you for bringing this up :-D

gbasin 6y ago

Glad to hear it. Enjoy your journey!

baddox 6y ago

Consider that “here’s how to do explorative learning” is also prescriptive. I tend to think of exploration as just exploring everyone else’s prescriptions, testing them, and seeing what appeals to me and whatever my goals may be. In that sense, I don’t think prescriptions are bad. I still think explorative learning is that way to go, but you need to have something to explore.

jimkleiber 6y ago
haha well said :-)

SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago

Some things are better learned prescriptively. Like what's legal in a given area: exploratory learning by trying things and getting arrested repeatedly is a bad plan. Other things are better learned through exploration. There's no one-size-fits-all strategy.

jimkleiber 6y ago
Ah, fair point! I really like that example, especially for legal aspects. I think I perceive the world to be so focused on prescriptive learning that I lean too far in the other direction to try to re-balance, without saying that it's about bringing things back into balance. Thank you for bringing this up :-D