Think Differently

You cannot solve a problem with the same mindset that created it.

I have heard many answers like this from people who I ask why they don’t want to study at university.

Many individuals question the significance of studying at university and believe that they don’t need to. It’s not relevant for their lives.

They often hold the view that the primary reason to study is to acquire new skills, which in turn can lead to other benefits. They also believe that success can be directly measured and only study when they can see tangible benefits such as a higher salary or better job prospects.

They want to derive direct benefit from a course of study: If they can see that it will improve their salary or enable them to get a new job, then they would want study. If they can directly see and measure the outcome, then they plan to do it.

However, this capitalist way of thinking (“What is my advantage?”) is very short-term thinking.

They are limited in the thinking they currently have — namely, precisely that of the person who has not yet studied.

One has to manage to put oneself in the position (visualize!) of the person who has already done these things.

This requires creativity and imagination.

Only when you’ve done that can you look beyond yourself and decide what to do after that.

And then you realize that it made sense to attend university, because that’s when this opportunity (whatever you do afterwards) arose.

This is not possible.

An intelligent man once said:

So if you want to solve or change something, you first have to change your mindset.

And you can’t do that by just saying “I have now changed my thinking”.

While learning in general is crucial to changing our thinking, studying new subjects is especially important. This is because it helps us learn things that we have not encountered before, and therefore, think differently.

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