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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore 1 Notifications Chat SuperGrok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Communities Profile More Post Eli @eliqiann Article See new posts Conversation DAN KOE @thedankoe Subscribe If you have multiple interests, do not waste the next 2-3 years 536 5K 27K 8.8M Society made you think that having multiple interests was a weakness. Go to school. Get a degree. Get a job. Retire at some point. But there is so much wrong with that sequence of events. We don’t live in the Industrial Age anymore. Specializing in one skill is almost certain death. I feel like we all know by this point how dangerous mechanical living and siloed learning is for your psyche and soul. And people can feel that we’re going through a second renaissance. Your curiosity and love for learning are your advantages in today’s world, but there is something missing. For the longest time, I learned and learned and learned. I was stuck in tutorial hell.

@thedankoe: If you have multiple interests, do not waste the next 2-3 years Society made you think that having multiple interests was a weakness. Go to school. Get a degree. Get a job. Retire at some point. But there is so much wrong with that sequence of events. We don’t live in the Industrial Age anymore. Specializing in one skill is almost certain death. I feel like we all know by this point how dangerous mechanical living and siloed learning is for your psyche and soul. And people can feel that we’re going through a second renaissance. Your curiosity and love for learning are your advanta

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