curiosity trumps education
2011-Sep-28, Wednesday 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerThere's so much happening in this complex world. It's intimidating, to say the least. As I relearned yesterday, it's plainly impossible that I will find enough attention for everything that I want to experience. Instead, I must pick and choose where I focus my thoughts, if I can focus at all.
So when I'm feeling inadequate, it helps to remember that the world being complex and unpredictable also means that truly anything is possible... even the stuff that's good and fun and rewarding. Never discount the potential for your own contribution to the human story.
Go try something new. I commuted by bicycle this summer for the first time in my life, at age 43.
Go learn something new. I signed up several weeks ago (when they were still under 100,000 students) for that Artificial Intelligence class offered online for free by Stanford University. Late at night, I've been reading parts of a companion book (optional) that goes with the class. The field has changed a lot since I last took a class on the subject. I'm expecting the sessions to be very exciting. Lots of other people are too. I've already found people online who are intending to organize online discussions using Google+ hangouts. In fact, there's a whole academy organizing around the G+ hangout concept.
Fun times. Ever more complex... and each intersection of ideas offers another opportunity to find something new.
So when I'm feeling inadequate, it helps to remember that the world being complex and unpredictable also means that truly anything is possible... even the stuff that's good and fun and rewarding. Never discount the potential for your own contribution to the human story. "Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
Go try something new. I commuted by bicycle this summer for the first time in my life, at age 43.
Go learn something new. I signed up several weeks ago (when they were still under 100,000 students) for that Artificial Intelligence class offered online for free by Stanford University. Late at night, I've been reading parts of a companion book (optional) that goes with the class. The field has changed a lot since I last took a class on the subject. I'm expecting the sessions to be very exciting. Lots of other people are too. I've already found people online who are intending to organize online discussions using Google+ hangouts. In fact, there's a whole academy organizing around the G+ hangout concept.
Fun times. Ever more complex... and each intersection of ideas offers another opportunity to find something new.