I used to be super anti-pay for courses for whatever reason until a few years ago. (maybe it was the college debt lol)
But when I came out of high school, I had an interesting realization based on finding out that knowledge is beautiful if you like what you're studying.
Creativity stems from 2 places:
1. Ignorance
2. Overabundance of knowledge
I think my problem with courses was like you say, not solutions for success. Once I started thinking about them as another chapter in the filing cabinet I can refer to when needed, it made a lot more sense.
But when I came out of high school, I had an interesting realization based on finding out that knowledge is beautiful if you like what you're studying.
Creativity stems from 2 places:
1. Ignorance
When you're not bound by the walls of an industry, philosophy, or thought process, you make it up as you go. Take a look at scientists, they're engulfed in the unknown.
When we think about the scientific process, we often refer to them as establishing "facts." After all, discoveries are published in peer reviewed papers, so they must be true. Far from it...
"We recognize that facts are the most unreliable part of the whole operation." as neuroscientist, Stuart Firestein puts it.
His book, Ignorance: How It Drives Science is a great read.
Also, Objective knowledge out of ignorance: Popper on body, mind, and the third world. by Herbert Keuth
When we think about the scientific process, we often refer to them as establishing "facts." After all, discoveries are published in peer reviewed papers, so they must be true. Far from it...
"We recognize that facts are the most unreliable part of the whole operation." as neuroscientist, Stuart Firestein puts it.
His book, Ignorance: How It Drives Science is a great read.
Also, Objective knowledge out of ignorance: Popper on body, mind, and the third world. by Herbert Keuth
2. Overabundance of knowledge
In the adjacent field, you have engineers. They take all the knowledge they can and try to connect it in various ways.
The Wright brothers comes to mind...
You have a bird, so we know we're not bound by to the ground by the laws of physics. So what if we combined wood, an engine and shape it like something we know can fly.
You most likely do this as well. When was the last time you had a simple problem in the house and didn't have the necessary tools to fix it. You put something together from materials just lying around.
The Wright brothers comes to mind...
You have a bird, so we know we're not bound by to the ground by the laws of physics. So what if we combined wood, an engine and shape it like something we know can fly.
You most likely do this as well. When was the last time you had a simple problem in the house and didn't have the necessary tools to fix it. You put something together from materials just lying around.
I think my problem with courses was like you say, not solutions for success. Once I started thinking about them as another chapter in the filing cabinet I can refer to when needed, it made a lot more sense.