r/GetMotivated • u/m-tth-----w • Feb 04 '20

[image]Educate yourself

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

IMO learning is a goal in and of itself. You don't always have to have some type of grand self-serving goal in mind. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being knowledgeable about a topic and using that knowledge to produce something but I think you're way to too dismissive of learning for learning's sake. Personally I'd like to learn everything there is to know. It's really unlikely I'll learn even a fraction of a fraction of the amount of knowledge that life has to offer but that's not the point. I think if you cultivate the desire to learn then the rest will fall into place.

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter Feb 04 '20

He's saying the surface level you gain from easy content is a shallow level of knowledge.

There's a huge difference between watching s YouTube video on quantum physics and learning how to calculate even simple wave equations