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Yes. This is a bit reductive, but literally everything is out there for the taking -- you just have to go out and get it! Anecdotally, I've noticed that a disp
by kevinsync 2y ago
Yes. This is a bit reductive, but literally everything is out there for the taking -- you just have to go out and get it!
Anecdotally, I've noticed that a disproportionate amount of formally-educated people I've encountered in life are more allergic to this idea than the opposite.. I don't have any solid theories as to why, exactly, but it's curious nonetheless.
- mr90210 2y agoHave look at Nassim Taleb’s Skin In The Game. He explores this topic at length.
- xeromal 2y agoBecause a lot of people don't want everything resting on them. Takes a special kind of person. I know I ain't one. My dad owned his own business with a 100 employees and it was miserable growing up
- randomdata 2y ago> I don't have any solid theories as to why What sees you discount the obvious? That is, formally educated people end up in formal education because they have a proclivity towards not wanting to have to go out and get it. They want someone else to hand it to them. Which is, after all, what the "formal" part of formal education describes.
- sakopov 2y agoThe problem is identifying what to go out and get. Because most people will go out and get the wrong thing and end up burning themselves out of future endeavors.