- Is learning [[New Territory]] [[anxiety]]?
- A: In a meta sense, "learning a new area" is [[first sexual experience]], anxiety about doing something for the first time
- B: Unsure if investing time in learning in that area will [[pay]].
- C: Learning a new area of the world makes me face up to my ignorance, which hurts my [[self-respect]] and makes me anxious
Some people seem to be uneasy about it, but I don’t really share their uneasiness.
- A: Not the first time learning a new area to begin with.
- B: On whether to [pay
- I don’t think you should do something like “everyone around me says it’s good to learn X, so I’m going to learn it,” because the odds of it paying off are low, but if not, I think Niche Top Strategy for Cross-fertilization will pay off easily.
- The possibility that I am more optimistic than average when it comes to investing in these risky things.
- Well, early adopter means Irrationally optimistic insensitivity.
- Strategies for smaller initial investment can be used in combination
- C: Face your [ignorance
- When you’re learning a new field X, you certainly face up to the fact that you don’t know X.
- But, for example, when I learn about intellectual property, even if I am ignorant about intellectual property, the engineers around me are even more ignorant.
- I’m certainly more clueless about intellectual property experts, but he’s more clueless than I am about programming.
- Is this a [There’s a glass half full of water.
- The cup is not full, so there are some shortfalls, but I don’t feel guilty about that.
- To say that being full is good is to believe that fullness is possible in the first place, but it is impossible for humans to be full because there is already an amount of information that cannot be absorbed over a lifetime
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