> Consider this common belief: “You’ll never get anywhere unless you know where you’re going.” This seems so common sensical, and yet it’s obviously not true if you stop to think about it.
Obviously he’s never heard my favorite, from Yogi Berra: “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.”
I don’t like the absoluteness of saying that people should have “no goal,” but I’ve very much preferred a vaguely-defined path. Getting lost is a great way to learn how to think on your feet, and adapt to opportunities as they come (and sometimes “somewhere else” is closer to where you want to be) — but having some direction or overall aim is important.
There’s wandering, and there’s wandering toward what you want / what makes you happy.
I liken it to a global search algorithm, such as simulated annealing. At a certain point the search entropy should be high, so as to avoid getting stuck in a local minima. However, at other times the search entropy should be low so the actual optimum can be found.
Yes, most of life can be explained with computer science analogies. There should be a book about this.
Obviously he’s never heard my favorite, from Yogi Berra: “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else.”
I don’t like the absoluteness of saying that people should have “no goal,” but I’ve very much preferred a vaguely-defined path. Getting lost is a great way to learn how to think on your feet, and adapt to opportunities as they come (and sometimes “somewhere else” is closer to where you want to be) — but having some direction or overall aim is important.
There’s wandering, and there’s wandering toward what you want / what makes you happy.