I find it more useful to "follow my curiosity" ... I feel the concept of "dreams" has too much weight and seriousness attached to it nowadays
What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]
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#12The ironical thing about the "Follow what creates value for other people" advice - for math graduates in particular - is that most of modern math doesn't seem to be motivated this. I'd probably agree that research math also doesn't come from a goal of "self growth", but maybe it should be something like "follow your curiosity".
> for math graduates in particular
I don't think it's ironic at all. The vast majority of math graduates don't do pure math research after graduation. And modern pure mathematicians dramatically undercut how much of their research was, in relatively recent history, driven mainly by practical value.
Re: What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]
#13The ironical thing about the "Follow what creates value for other people" advice - for math graduates in particular - is that most of modern math doesn't seem to be motivated this. I'd probably agree that research math also doesn't come from a goal of "self growth", but maybe it should be something like "follow your curiosity".
> The ironical thing about the "Follow what creates value for other people" advice - for math graduates in particular - is that most of modern math doesn't seem to be motivated this.
I do believe that the results of math research (even the pure one) create an insane value for other people, but that we live in a world full of ignorant people who don't see this insane value (yet). Thus, the modern math research may not be motivated by this criterion, but in most cases nearly tautologically creates a lot of value for other people.
Re: What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]
#14I find it very ironic that Americans seem to understand better as a culture that they need to diversity their investment portfolio, but at the same time seem to ignore that concept in their personal life more than almost any European.
It seems like the concept that there probably shouldn't be any single goal or purpose in life that needs to be maxed, and that life is a basket is foreign to most.
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#15The ironical thing about the "Follow what creates value for other people" advice - for math graduates in particular - is that most of modern math doesn't seem to be motivated this. I'd probably agree that research math also doesn't come from a goal of "self growth", but maybe it should be something like "follow your curiosity".
> The ironical thing about the "Follow what creates value for other people" advice - for math graduates in particular - is that most of modern math doesn't seem to be motivated this. I do believe that the results of math research (even the pure one) create an insane value for other people, but that we live in a world full of ignorant people who don't see this insane value (yet). Thus, the modern math research may not…
I agree. You can still make a great living just by sifting through the nuggets unearthed by people like Gauss, Euler, and Laplace, which continue to pay dividends centuries later, let alone inventing new math.
Re: What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]
#16It’s always had the subtext of “follow your (reasonable) dreams.”
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You're suspicious my comment is an ad, or the original post? I have zero affiliation with the channel, have never emailed with the creator or anyone on their team, and am not even subscribed to the youtube channel. I just saw a guy wearing one of the shirts at the Palo Alto farmer's market and was intrigued. My first reaction was "is that the guy who runs the channel?" and then I realized he probably had a shop and p…
Apologies, still finding my footing here at HN. I have a lot "reddit reflexes" for lack of a better word, and this was probably a product of that.
Re: What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're suspicious my comment is an ad, or the original post? I have zero affiliation with the channel, have never emailed with the creator or anyone on their team, and am not even subscribed to the youtube channel. I just saw a guy wearing one of the shirts at the Palo Alto farmer's market and was intrigued. My first reaction was "is that the guy who runs the channel?" and then I realized he probably had a shop and p…
Apologies, still finding my footing here at HN. I have a lot "reddit reflexes" for lack of a better word, and this was probably a product of that.
You might check someone's account age or history first. Typically people won't accumulate many thousands of karma points if they are shilling for brands.
Re: What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]
#19The ironical thing about the "Follow what creates value for other people" advice - for math graduates in particular - is that most of modern math doesn't seem to be motivated this. I'd probably agree that research math also doesn't come from a goal of "self growth", but maybe it should be something like "follow your curiosity".
“People” need to be better defined. In the case of pure math, “people” are your fellow mathematicians in your specific subfield or adjacent.
Re: What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses [video]
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apologies, still finding my footing here at HN. I have a lot "reddit reflexes" for lack of a better word, and this was probably a product of that.
You might check someone's account age or history first. Typically people won't accumulate many thousands of karma points if they are shilling for brands.
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