My world on the web
You simply can’t learn everything and some things are very long undertakings. There are contextual limits too – some things are very expensive to access for example. However, my general approach to things personally is that things are learnable until proven not to be. I accept that I’m extraordinarily privileged to rarely hit the contextual limits of this. For people who experience these sorts of constraints much more regularly it must be very difficult to adopt this mindset.
I may not have all the answers, but I think I am good at capturing particular problems at hand and with that drawing on past practice to come up with possible solutions. I am going to assume this is why people come to me with such diverse questions and quandaries.
I often think that the real magic is finding the time to take the next step.
Thanks Aaron. Great point that I didn’t really consider in this context – that breaking things down is all about the quality of resources or support for learning. I guess seeing something impenetrable broken down enough times makes it seem more doable and this could contribute to the ideas I write about. Breaking things down into manageable and logical chunks is often quite a challenge, and might need some input from someone who knows the area better than you. Certainly don’t think everything is learnable on your own, but there is so much support that can be sought out on many things these days.