What I love about being in school is that I re-acquire the love of learning. As human beings, we aim for the easy button on a daily basis and in the absence of constraints we would probably spend our life in front of a TV, X-box or bottle of (insert favorite alcohol here). Drugs are also an acceptable substitute or complement to the bottle of (insert favorite alcohol here). So what I like about school is that, after the first 3 weeks of depression during which it kicks my butt out of lazy mode and into action, I actually feel like I'm starting to move ahead and discover new things! Today's picks are James Montier's theories of happiness and definition of a specialist: people who learn more and more about less and less, until they know absolutely everything about nothing. Ah the power of limits on infinity!
Also, thanks to behavioral finance I finally realized what my problem in life was: status quo bias. Some people call it laziness, others call it a fear of the unknown, either way it's an inability to move out of one's comfort zone and keep things the way they are. This year I started working on it, but I still have a long way to go I guess. Here's to trying many new things in the future (raise glass of favorite alcohol here).
Now back to study if I want to go to the World Press Photo exhibition tonight! And I promised myself I would not miss it this year!
