The first humans had to learn from scratch. There was no label attached to anything.
Something sounds good? It’s nothing but soothing sound until someone called it- Music.
Someone writes well? Let’s call him a writer.
Oh that guy thinks clearly and his logic makes sense! Let’s call him a philosopher.
Thus labels were created. Infinite potential became infinite fields of study- Infinite labels to achieve.
Now, no one’s good enough. As Jordan Peterson says in his book, “Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada if someone else in the president of United States!”
South Park complains- Simpsons have already done it! Which implies that there seems to be lack of fresh ideas remaining.
Does this make the world uninteresting? Have we really come to a place where it’s finally boring to live and to learn?
Heck no! Not even close! It’s the opposite. It’s the greatest time to be alive. Even for the creative types.
You see no body creates from the scratch. Creativity is nothing but solving the same puzzle in a different way. We do this by combining existing resources.
Nokia used to make great phones and Sony used to make great cameras.
What did the most innovative company of the century- Apple do? They put camera, phone, web browsing, music everything in one thing, made it easier than others to access those things and called it a great invention. People swear by the name of iPhones. But someone else had already made similar stuff? Haven’t they?
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It’s people like Tom Bilyeu who makes me feel like life is a game worth playing. What does he do? He invites people from different fields of study to tell their stories. Writers, designers, entrepreneurs you name it!
Learning is so easy now! Let’s say you want to learn how to rhyme. 2000 years ago you’d have to practice, fail, brainstorm, find a mentor blah blah blah.
Only if somebody else had already cracked the code! What if you didn’t need to rediscover anything? Rather, focus your efforts on learning what’s been already done and then progress further along the way?
Well, now you can! You can find every song ever published by Eminem on YouTube. For free! Who better to teach you rhyming than the God of rap himself!
You want to learn how to build an Artificially intelligent being? What if you wanna learn how rockets work? Or maybe you just want to learn how to cook your favorite dish by yourself?
There’s no limit! Somebody has already cracked the codes!
A solid example of what I’m trying to say:
Are you shy and want to learn socializing? Go google Vanessa Van Edwards. Thank me later.
This amazing woman has dedicated her whole life to crack the social code. She has hired experts, run experiments in the real world through numerous people, has written books and produced videos about it.
What do you have to do? Just learn what she has already discovered! What’s your reward? You’ll get closer to your existing friends and acquaintances, you’ll find more love and spread more joy! You may learn how to deal with toxic people. You’ll make new friends, hold better position in your job, influence your employees… sky is the limit really.
And you don’t have to spend strenuous time and energy on rediscovering anything! The dish has been served already! Just go and eat. You’ll get healthier in a matter of days!
Imagine if we insisted on reinventing the wheel! How dumb would that be? What makes us humans so great is our ability to store knowledge.
If I’ve found something with great efforts, I’ll write it down so that my sons and their sons and daughters won’t have to rediscover! They will build upon it!
That’s how lucky we are! Rabindranath Tagore has already cracked the codes of poetry! Elon Musk has already shown how to pursue an impossible dream and still succeed! Let’s learn from them. Let’s build upon them!
RaihanRiad 