3 Rules for Choosing What to Learn
I romanticize learning.
To some extent, we all do. Probably, because it feels good.
Or maybe, because we associate it with status, power, wealth and achievement.
We lionize the great learners and thinkers of the world. Paragons of humanities prowess; Einstein, Da Vinci, Edison, Plato.
My problem is that in focusing on the what of who these great leaders are, I lose sight of the why.
They learned in order to do.
In an epoch where we are frequently reminded of the necessity to remain relevant through constant, life-long learning, it’s becoming increasingly more relevant to pick and choose what we learn, deliberately.
The skills you learnt yesterday appear updated or replaced today. It feels harder and harder to remain relevant, to keep up to date.
Especially with social media providing a constant tug of keeping up with the Jones’s.
This is why it’s important to know what all the great polymaths of history understood. Choosing what you learn is almost as important as learning itself.
We only get X amount of hours on this rock we call home. Spending them obsessing over acquiring as many arbitrary skills as possible may not be a path to meaning and salvation…
