Always choosing growth can lead to overstretching where the needs of all the things you started can become overwhelming while your skills never solidify.
I prefer the paths shown in Apprenticeship Patterns, because they are more nuanced: sometimes you have to "withdraw into competence" to regain the needed focus to try new things again. If life comes crashing down around you, you need a stable base to avoid breaking in ways that would prevent you from providing the support people you care about (like your family) depend on.
That’s what I mean. It was an eye-opener for me and helped me move forward when I got bored of Python, as well as to reflect on my situation over time.
Thanks, Wes. Fair point. Can definitely see that _not trying_ can just leave things as they are. I guess I was thinking of it in the sense that any potential anxiety about whatever it is remains, but from the cycle I can see that it looks like it might produce anxiety. Not what I intended—appreciate the note. Perhaps it needs one with just the right hand side and the status quo is implicit 🤔
Maybe you could visualize "anxiety" as a mountain or hill, with "new things" at the top. "New things" could be visualized as climbing gear, or a vehicle. The cycle is that it's hard to try new things because of anxiety. But once you scale that mountain once, subsequent mountains become easier to scale.
Always choosing growth can lead to overstretching where the needs of all the things you started can become overwhelming while your skills never solidify.
I prefer the paths shown in Apprenticeship Patterns, because they are more nuanced: sometimes you have to "withdraw into competence" to regain the needed focus to try new things again. If life comes crashing down around you, you need a stable base to avoid breaking in ways that would prevent you from providing the support people you care about (like your family) depend on.
Hi Arne. That's great thanks. I haven't come across apprenticeship patterns but that makes loads of sense. Do you mean the patterns from:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/apprenticeship-patterns/9780596806842/
or is it more generally apprenticeship patterns or from somewhere else?
That’s what I mean. It was an eye-opener for me and helped me move forward when I got bored of Python, as well as to reflect on my situation over time.
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Agree 100%.
I don't think that _not trying_ new things produces anxiety. I think it's just a one-way street, that anxiety causes is not to try new things.
However, if you can overcome that anxiety, and try new things, that helps to reduce anxiety.
I think this needs a more accurate sketch.
Thanks, Wes. Fair point. Can definitely see that _not trying_ can just leave things as they are. I guess I was thinking of it in the sense that any potential anxiety about whatever it is remains, but from the cycle I can see that it looks like it might produce anxiety. Not what I intended—appreciate the note. Perhaps it needs one with just the right hand side and the status quo is implicit 🤔
Maybe you could visualize "anxiety" as a mountain or hill, with "new things" at the top. "New things" could be visualized as climbing gear, or a vehicle. The cycle is that it's hard to try new things because of anxiety. But once you scale that mountain once, subsequent mountains become easier to scale.