And this effect is especially strong with information—we’re much more likely to try to obtain information that we believe is secret, and to value it more when we do obtain it.
There is an additional benefit to the process—filtering. Today there is so much information, that finding the info. you’re looking for can be hard to find. And when the quality of sources varies so much, and can be difficult to judge, that driving a lack of interest does make sense. (As does forcing people to do a thing badly.)
For this world, I might recommend employing the Ikea effect—don’t study X, build X/do what sounds fun in that space. Are there limits to what you can build? In this, Empiricism may be the way to go—the impossible hasn’t been done yet, and you don’t know until you’ve tried.
Perhaps in a world where calculus hadn’t been invented it would be harder to reinvent—I still don’t see why derivatives are important as a thing unto themselves, rather than as a special case where h=0. But if you make something, you have not only a better grasp of it, and context, but of where it does and doesn’t work—yet. What someone else gives you, you may forget. What you have made once, you can make again—perhaps better this time.
Perhaps making a computer and an OS from scratch and programming languages and reinventing everything would take too long. But just as the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, the pursuit of growth that never ends may go far indeed.
There is an additional benefit to the process—filtering. Today there is so much information, that finding the info. you’re looking for can be hard to find. And when the quality of sources varies so much, and can be difficult to judge, that driving a lack of interest does make sense. (As does forcing people to do a thing badly.)
For this world, I might recommend employing the Ikea effect—don’t study X, build X/do what sounds fun in that space. Are there limits to what you can build? In this, Empiricism may be the way to go—the impossible hasn’t been done yet, and you don’t know until you’ve tried.
Perhaps in a world where calculus hadn’t been invented it would be harder to reinvent—I still don’t see why derivatives are important as a thing unto themselves, rather than as a special case where h=0. But if you make something, you have not only a better grasp of it, and context, but of where it does and doesn’t work—yet. What someone else gives you, you may forget. What you have made once, you can make again—perhaps better this time.
Perhaps making a computer and an OS from scratch and programming languages and reinventing everything would take too long. But just as the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, the pursuit of growth that never ends may go far indeed.