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Sometimes I wonder if it is worth learning some things.

I just spent $80 on 2 books that is the complete history of the internal combustion engine, and the development of the diesel engine.

There is literally no reason for me to learn the history of engines. Even if it has been a curiosity for years, I gain no value in learning it.

To work on an engine I don’t need to know the history, society is moving to electric engines so the future value is

negligible.

I have read about 8 history books in the last 3 months on agriculture, tractors, and farm tech. Most of it does not gain me anything.

So is it really worth it?

#history #grownostr #philosophy #continuingeducation
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Tim 2y ago

follow your curiosity. it may lead you mysterious, and sometimes unintuitive, places, but one day you will end up exactly where you belong, and you will wonder how you got there(:

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Buddy Lindsey 2y ago

I can understand that. I feel like that is a model of my life. I grew up as a tech person, always on the computer learning to program, or game as a teenager, I went into software development as a career. However, from being an Eagle Scout I always wanted to live in the country surrounded by nature, two competing goals TBH. With that it lead me to marrying a country girl whose dad grew up a farmer, moving to the country, being curious about chickens. Now I help with cattle, grow chickens, help my wife with a garden, I build all sots of stuff. I am a very different person now, but the path was not a straight line. lol.