It’s weird because people who make breakthroughs in fields are usually not from the field that they were educated in. I think education sort of gets you into this certain way of thinking on a topic and you get into sort of a cage built for you by the status quo. Edward Dutton has a video on this called “why do amateur scientists make groundbreaking discoveries?” His theory is that if you take the traditional route through university you’ll just end up being some cog who might have your name in a few papers as sources if you choose to go the academic route for your field. Modern academia is pretty much a circle jerk of conformity where nobody wants to rock the boat. You want to get those funding dollars and you have to be a good goy to get them. There is a list of people who made discoveries in history who had nothing to do with their field of education. They are just high IQ people who learned how to think than then applied that skill to another field without the ideological blinders that are put on you for going through the traditional academic route for any given field.
It’s weird because people who make breakthroughs in fields are usually not from the field that they were educated in. I think education sort of gets you into this certain way of thinking on a topic and you get into sort of a cage built for you by the status quo. Edward Dutton has a video on this called “why do amateur scientists make groundbreaking discoveries?” His theory is that if you take the traditional route through university you’ll just end up being some cog who might have your name in a few papers as sources if you choose to go the academic route for your field. Modern academia is pretty much a circle jerk of conformity where nobody wants to rock the boat. You want to get those funding dollars and you have to be a good goy to get them. There is a list of people who made discoveries in history who had nothing to do with their field of education. They are just high IQ people who learned how to think than then applied that skill to another field without the ideological blinders that are put on you for going through the traditional academic route for any given field.
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