You're learning a lot, but is it valuable?
Oliver Quinlan,
Substack,
Oct 10, 2022
My first reaction to this post was to say "but everything is valuable". Oliver Quinlan says, "The more you focus on learning that is transferable and valuable, the better off you will be." By contrast, if you learn how to deal with a specific context, like, say, a dysfunctional work environment, "what you are learning is of limited value beyond the current situation." Now, I don't think learning is so tightly constrained by context. It's not like we accumulate the wrong type of information. But still, on reflection, we can learn the wrong things, like learning to hate, learning to prejudge, learning to cause harm and be a bad actor. These, though, are reflective of a broader social and learning environment, and not the result of choosing 'valuable' things to learn. In my view, at least.
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