1/ Our education system is based on the premise that you should set your sights as high as you can at age 14 and progressively lower them
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2/ Start at CEO/POTUS/Nobel/Rock Star and then lower down to 'burger flipper' as you fail downwards aspirationally
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3/ This is really shitty for 2 reasons: first, most work is framed as a failure mode on some hierarchy of accomplishment
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4/ Second, and MUCH worse, work that's not on the "settling for less" sights-lowering gaze path isn't contemplated at all
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5/ We end up in this bind because work is conflated with role, role with identity, identity with class status
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6/ What if instead, education were framed around lowest possible *habits* with progressive raising of sights based on composing habit-sets?
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7/ You would do forward state-space search in A=skill space rather than regression search backward from a goal-role in B=role space. A>>B
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8/ Instead of targeting a social class through work, you'd decouple that and traverse an individualized level-up hierarchy
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Yeah definitely related, also to his systems > goals point.
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