I am a practitioner of life sciences. I use category theory to understand what I'm looking at around me in the world. I don't know if I'm even applying it properly and it's still been incredibly useful to me. I've developed basic principles for myself I use in daily life, to handle my emotions, and for raising my child.
Practitioner apathy and willingness to dismiss things as not useful can reflect a lack of intellectual humility in their cultures and lives.
The generality is useful if one practices seeking subject-specific insights from the generality. It sometimes leads to new options I haven't even thought of or leads me to reconsider decisions.
"Useful" is a judgment and most judgments like this are made on too short of a timeline. What's actually happening is someone hasn't found a use for the thing labeled as "useless" and is blaming it on the thing, themselves, or where the thing came from. Instead, a growth mindset focused on learning, accountability, and responsibility might be "I did this thing and the outcome I wanted didn't occur. I haven't yet learned how to use it for said outcome."
Practitioner apathy and willingness to dismiss things as not useful can reflect a lack of intellectual humility in their cultures and lives.
The generality is useful if one practices seeking subject-specific insights from the generality. It sometimes leads to new options I haven't even thought of or leads me to reconsider decisions.
"Useful" is a judgment and most judgments like this are made on too short of a timeline. What's actually happening is someone hasn't found a use for the thing labeled as "useless" and is blaming it on the thing, themselves, or where the thing came from. Instead, a growth mindset focused on learning, accountability, and responsibility might be "I did this thing and the outcome I wanted didn't occur. I haven't yet learned how to use it for said outcome."