Tips please. Autistic girl, 25. But there are probably others in a similar situation.I feel like deep down I know nothing about the world. I love science, technology, psychology, economics. Many things. I know more than the people around me, but at the same time, I feel I know nothing. I also don't know where to research.When I've gone to various conferences, I see many people who know a lot about everything, and I don't understand how. > What am I missing? > Where can I learn?I have too much free time and I don't enjoy it. I feel like I'm constantly wasting it. I'd like to dedicate all this time to reading and learning about useful topics.I'm a very logical person. I studied computer engineering hoping to work in something that didn't involve dealing with people, and although I enjoyed my degree (I feel like it was a rip-off), I couldn't find a job due to a "lack of social skills" and a lack of junior positions. During my studies, they told us we could work in genomic data analysis, but they never gave us a foundation in biology. I've tried to learn about it, and I know quite a bit, but I still don't know where to start. I feel that once I start working in a related field, I'll be able to learn from my colleagues, but I don't know how, and I don't know how to make friends who know about it either.I find it hard to find people I enjoy talking to. I get bored with ignorant people, and I dislike sociopaths. I don't drink alcohol or coffee, so I don't know how to meet people. English isn't my first language either, so I'm afraid to move. Although I plan to do it when I'm settled.
>>34527842Well, I'll go ahead and say the obvious and tell you that it depends on what you want to do and learn. Biology for example: you could just talk to or email a biology teacher asking about what the recommended introductory biology textbooks are. Hell, you could even do a simple Google search and figure that out quickly, although less reliable.And social skills are... skills. You learn them. You aren't forced to drink alcohol or coffee, just order some water or an orange juice on those occasions.
>>34527842>During my studies, they told us we could work in genomic data analysis, but they never gave us a foundation in biologyCan't you apply for undergrad biology courses at your university? I dont know which ones would be relevant to you. Discuss it with your dean/contact person.>Where can I acquire knowledge?This is extremely vague.For example, if you want to become more knowledgeable in history you have to read scholarly works by specialists. You may instead have to read primary sources and come up with your own interpretation of what happened.If you want to learn maths you don't read textbooks but drill exercises.If you want to learn to weld you do it by practising it on an object, learning the movements by doing etc.You may think you are learning while learning nothing. You may not intend to learn while learning the most useful things.
>>345278421. turn off computer2. open a bookis that difficult? jesus christ
>>34527897That's what I want. Which book?
Usually people don't just learn with no goal, it's to solve a problem or answer a question. As you work in your field, you'll naturally gain more knowledge as specific questions/problems come up, and then you have a topic you can research. There isn't really a singular book that you can pick up to learn everything, especially since your interests are quite complex. If you're just hungry for knowledge, a better thing to do would be breaking down the topics further and ask what aspects of them you want to learn more about.
>>34527922The Language of God-Francis S Collins
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>>34527842NO ONE knows everything about everything. Your first task is to decide just how much you really need to know about something. For most things, it's actually very little. For some things, a typical encyclopedia entry will do. And only a VERY few things need reading a book about
Do not dwell on the awareness of your own ignorance. We all are ignorant to some extent, but we should strive to be less ignorant than we were yesterday.To put it briefly: if you want to feel happy while learning, connect it to your passions, or to something that puts you in a state of deep focus, even obsession.
>>34527842The ability to reason well is the only thing that actually constitutes true knowledge, or wisdom. Everything else is trivia. Logic is the master skill that holds the reigns on every other skill. So, to that end, what you want is philosophy. Start with critical thinking oriented stuff like Celestine Bittle's textbook on logic.
>>34527842You might get some mileage out of "how to fail at almost everything" by Scott Adams.
>>34527842you need to find a rich husband and make babies before it's too late.
>>34527842>I know more than the people around me, but at the same time, I feel I know nothing.That's good.>Finally I went to the craftsmen, for I was conscious of knowing practically nothing, and I knew that I would find that they had knowledge of many fine things. In this I was not mistaken; they knew things I did not know, and to that extent they were wiser than I. But, gentlemen of the jury, the good craftsmen seemed to me to have the same fault as the poets: each of them, because of his success at his craft, thought himself very wise in other most important pursuits, and this error of theirs overshadowed the wisdom they had, so that I asked myself, on behalf of the oracle, whether I should prefer to be as I am, with neither their wisdom nor their ignorance, or to have both. The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am. (Apology of Socrates)
>>34527922I would start with this.https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil100/04.%20Apology.pdf>As a result he came to dislike me, and so did many of the bystanders. So I withdrew and thought to myself: "I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know." After this I approached another man, one of those thought to be wiser than he, and I thought the same thing, and so I came to be disliked both by him and by many others. After that I proceeded systematically. I realized, to my sorrow and alarm, that I was getting unpopular, but I thought that I must attach the greatest importance to the god's oracle, so I must go to all those who had any reputation for knowledge to examine its meaning. And by the dog, gentlemen of the jury—for I must tell you the truth—I experienced something like this: in my investigation in the service of the god I found that those who had the highest reputation were nearly the most deficient, while those who were thought to be inferior were more knowledgeable.
>>34527842>What am I missing?basic human interaction. The best way to learn about the world at times is not pure information, its how a person can store and process that knowledge. I have met two different people- when given certain info, one will use it to generate income, the other will use it further their studies. Everyone is different.>Where can I learn?everywhere. From people you meet in different countries, to the local shop owner downstairs in your neighborhood. Books can teach you lots about the world, but I feel you miss out if you dont also learn from others.
>>34529975>richStop with this bullshit. A family can be happy with very little. Materialism rots the soul.
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