Room of growth
“If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room”
How do we learn? How do we move forward in life? Those are two different questions we need to stop to think about.
I think we learn best by doing, interacting with other people, and getting ourselves immersed in a specific topic. Compounding small chunks of time each day about a certain topic might work but, above everything, it’s truly about being passionate and putting in the hours. And then everything starts happening. We should be ready for that and hold on to the rope.
For some reason, there are a lot of people who are not passionate about any specific topic. I used to think that was somehow negative and everyone should have passion projects and want to get something else out of life. I think it’s important to challenge the status quo and be who we want to be our most authentic selves. At the same time, if people are happy, who are you to tell them they are wrong? The people I have seen myself wanting to hang out with lately are not the crazy hustlers, but the ones who are passionate about life and content with where they stand. They are selfless, ego-free, kind, intelligent, and curious.
One thing I think is important is to have some sort of vision of what we want our ideal life to look like. How is the character we want to play? Then move forward by taking the right steps to get us there. This looks different for every person. What if your ideal life is having a stable 9 - 5 and going home after work to be with your family and friends? What if your ideal life is not working at all?
There is nothing wrong with any lifestyle, as long as people are overall content and don’t feel like they should be doing something else all the time. And if they are not, it’s not your job either to point it out to them.
Learning? It seems like it stops after you graduate. Wrong. Probably the wrongest thing I have heard. I used to think so too. Learning takes so many forms and shapes. What happens when you graduate is you can start learning what you want, however, fits you better. And not how someone else says you should learn. For me, it’s about the consumption of content from specific creators I admire: youtube videos, podcasts, books, which then shape my mindset and serve as a guideline into my own content. Most importantly I spark my memory through having conversations with people every day, in which I can tell them all about what I have been learning.