Useful Knowledge

A friend suggested that I join a professional course, which seems like a very good one, but requires a substantial amount of payment. Even if it didn’t cost anything, there’s still the time needed to be invested. So any way you see it, there’s always a cost to learn anything.

I know I wrote previously that being able to learn or study anything I want is a form of happiness, but there’s also the impact or gains that can be achieved by learning something. Would this knowledge be useful in the near or long future? With the advancement of technology, some processes can be completed very quickly now, and it is simply not ‘worth it’ to learn to do it. It could also be that what you learn now, like a programming language, might be obsolete or less useful in five-years time. It can also even be that it is not ‘useful’ now since what you learn cannot be used in your daily life or contribute to your work.

So what should you learn? I don’t know the answer to that, and when I look at my children, I worry about them. Of course the skills can always be useful, especially learning skills, but the information and knowledge is always hardest to gauge their usefulness. But I guess that’s part of the learning process; finding out what is useful and what’s not.

Thank you for reading.