You can spend 20 years studying the intricacies of a single discipline, get a doctorate and every accolade there is, but have built it all on an incorrect premise.
While someone else can be interested only in discovering the truth of the premise, and "know more" than you after a few youtube videos.
If you start on the wrong foundation and never reassess, all the study or degrees in the world won't save you from being wrong.
Any examples?
Economics, business, healthcare, nutrition, education, and then a list of hundreds of disciplines that are internal to each of those broader categories. Economics seems to be the worst by far, probably followed closely by healthcare and medicine. There could not be a more clear "report card" today showing the results of the two failed ideologies these are built on as well.
my teachers, after me studying economics for 4 years:
Don't confuse the way that economics is perverted by politicians and the actual practitioners of the discipline. For example, very few actual economists (even among those on the left) would tell you that protectionist tariffs or price controls will end well. That doesn't stop politicians from finding a few misguided souls that will shill a policy like that.
To be fair Economics and other disciplines are ever evolving and those who gained advanced understanding through formal education will likely not be satisfied to the point they will stop learning and keeping up with those changes.
The best metaphor I can improvise right now is that of someone who is coached to become a good surfer by great surfers through daily lessons and someone who watches youtube videos and then hits the waves.
It will depend on things like weather or tide but my money is on someone who practices constantly and dedicated enough time. Yes, academia and youtube can prepare you, but you have to do serious work to gain best understanding and keep updating oneself.
Agreed. But three youtube videos does not make you an expert. I think there's a middle ground between ivory tower academia and populist garbage.
I never said watching a few youtube videos makes one an expert, I said it could mean someone is closer to the truth than someone who spent years studying the wrong thing.
In other words, of course it doesn't make them an expert, but it could very well make their opinion more valuable than an expert who studied the wrong thing.
Exactly. Should be a minimum of 4 YouTube videos.
Yes. There are way too many NPCs in the academic world.
Agreed; Bitcoin is about to dismantle academia (fiat) physics. Do you think making the economists look like fools was fun?
yes it was definitely fun đ€Ł
Was just listening to a podcast this morning where a physician was talking about how he got zero nutrition education in medical school so he had to essentially do all the research himself
Applies to most doctors and physicists
Absolutely. Diplomas are worth nothing. They are a piece of paper that does not reflect a person's knowledge and mindset. Mislearning is also a big problem. If someone has the wrong foundation and develops from it, everything will be wrong. A person should be able to change his mind if he sees he is wrong, even if it is about something that will turn his life around.
Yes. But while the institutions of learning are in various stages of collapse, they still have massive weight, with predominantly good people in their orbit. Many of them will eventually gravitate to Bitcoin, or what Bitcoin represents, especially if itâs studied in terms more comfortable for the academy.
Various stages of reformation*
Studying is useful but it's certainly not a piece of paper to make you a phenomenon of the job. You need cunning and cunning experience that they don't teach at the university
That's why #soveng nostr:nprofile1qqsg8kve59yxyhpa9wupntesvnq0dgfd0k5g769jc6fzrua8gct36xgpzpmhxue69uhkumewwd68ytnrwghszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsq53ra5
More likely you where completely mislead by the current effort to discredit science as a whole in the US, to justify direct gouvernment intervention, replacement of teachers and curriculum that is alligned with the gouvernments view of how things ought to be teached.
Wake the fuck up
Thatâs exactly what Iâm talking about. âExpertsâ are nothing but the people highly educated in the status quo thinking, whether itâs right or wrong, and âscienceâ is very easily purchased.
I am agree. So much time lost in long pain excruciating education to get piece of paper called certificate , while indian people can just forged it within mininutes and called them self MBA and get them self a good salary , become marleting expery by watching you tube and read. Lot of book . A little bit luck help along the way .
This is why folks should check for me and not Stephen Hawkins when it comes to particle physics.
False equivalence but I will mark down any physics questions I have to DM you for đ€Ł
Tradução da nota.
VocĂȘ pode gastar 20 anos estudando atĂ© o Ănfimo intrĂsico de uma disciplina, ter um doutorado e tudo mais, mas ter construĂdo tudo isso em cima de uma premissa incorreta.
Enquanto alguem tambĂ©m pode estar unicamente interessado em descobrir a verdadeira premissa, e saber mais do que vocĂȘ em poucos vĂdeos de youtube.
Se vocĂȘ começa em fundamentos errados e nunca corrige-os, nenhum estudo ou escolaridade do mundo inteiro nĂŁo vĂŁo te salvar de estar errado
I'm in the trades, and the same thing applies. " I'VE BEEN DOING IT THIS WAY FOR 20 YEARS !!! "
ME: You've been doing it wrong for 20 years.
This is best applied to pseudo-sciences like Keynesian economics or gender studies. I maintain respect for advanced learning in STEM.
Horrifyingly STEM is decaying too, but luckily at a drastically slower rate and the feedback is much faster so I have hope that it will stay out of the worst of it.
But generally speaking yes, you are correct here.
4 walls and a hat
Make you no more qualified
Than a learned man
#haiku
Spent years studying âprocess improvementâ, only to learn since 2023 that itâs simple used to fight the effects of inflation.
Counterpoint: you're more likely to identify if you have a wrong foundation by careful study than spending a few hours on YouTube.
In fact you cannot know whether you have the right foundation without it so I'd argue the person who happens to stumble on the right foundation doesn't actually know anything.
Intuition comes before the specifics. Entirely depends on how you mentally frame things. You donât need a million specific details to understand the foundation or fundamental relationships at work, these are what give meaning of the millions of details.
Iâve found those with the most study of a topic to be the absolute most stuck in their way of thinking and unwilling to change their minds in the face of very explicit counter evidence. Not always the case, but more often the rule than the exception for sure.
The less you know the less predisposed you are to be stuck thinking about it a certain way.
The exceptions, in my experience, are the people who learn through the actual *application* of an idea or discipline. They gain an intuition about things that you can never get from study. Maybe this is a critique of education more than anything and it depends on what we semantically refer to as an âexpert.â
It's a tough blow on the ego when one has invested years being indoctrinated in a discipline, belief system and matrix of reality to then accept it was all a lie and a false lie. Requires a ton of courage, humility and willingness to go through the painful process of dissolution. It's easier to create a new narrative "yeah, but..." that falsely validates and justifies the old false construct you've built your reality upon and label and argue others into being weird or insane than shedding the scales of deception from your eyes.
False light*
Shedding the fiat-driven illusions of centralized systems takes guts. Like waking up to Bitcoinâs truth, itâs painful to admit years of belief in a rigged matrix were wasted. Humility beats clinging to a âyeah, butâ excuseâembrace the clarity, even if it stings.
Well said.
