Re:Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my life...
by wellpast on Sunday August 28, 2022 @01:11PM
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I agree that it can be like this.
Acquiring expertise is like climbing a mountain. There are revelations in the process, and it is like reaching a beautiful vista and the joy of seeing things expansively, from a height.
I wish I could have this experience in other domains, and feel the constraint is just the physical and temporal bounds of life.
Still, I recognize it as a fantasy to want these things. It’s just simply not possible.
I also recognize that there is something to the Eastern ideas of awareness and consciousness and that you perhaps you don’t need to labor toward material expertise to experience life with expansive revelation?
Acquiring expertise is like climbing a mountain. There are revelations in the process, and it is like reaching a beautiful vista and the joy of seeing things expansively, from a height.
I wish I could have this experience in other domains, and feel the constraint is just the physical and temporal bounds of life.
Still, I recognize it as a fantasy to want these things. It’s just simply not possible.
I also recognize that there is something to the Eastern ideas of awareness and consciousness and that you perhaps you don’t need to labor toward material expertise to experience life with expansive revelation?