I have about 5 minutes to write a post on my phone, while normally I spend a fair bit of time developing content. Of course, what people often forget when something is developed is what goes into the background process.

For exsmple, my father was a painter and while he spent 2-300 hours on a single painting, his skill was developed over an entire lifetime. This is the experience behind content, a photographer's skill with their camera or editing goes well beyond a single image, a writer's thoughts far deeper than a book or an article, an athlete's game is based on thousands of hours of training.

Of course, some people don't improve their skills or knowledge over time as instead of learning from the experience, they just create from habit. Same thoughts and process over and over and over. Stuck in a loop but thinking that time put in has value.

What tends to happen however is through all of the repetition one begins to assume that they are right as afterall, if they are not right, why are they repeating it so often. It is a bias of experience but due to all the information omitted, it is a potentially poor position.

I find this on Steem quite a lot and perhaps and sometimes blind to my own views of the platform. People get into habits of how they see and use the environment without recognising and adjusting for other ways and of course, the changes that are taking place.

One of my students yesterday was talking about all the complaining on social media with a lack of action to follow up. What they are complaining for is sympathy from the group, pats on the back to make them feel better but what they are complaining about is nearly always some form of change. My view is that these people might not be the most intelligent if one takes the, intelligence is the ability to adapt to change, view.

Complaining about change without action to adjust is essentially saying they don't have the ability to deal with whatever has changed. The sympathy they get (attention seeking behaviour) further supports their position not to change. That lack of movement lowers the experience also and therefore, the chance to learn and develop skills to adapt for future change.

The less some one learns and the more repetition that takes place, the further one can get from what is actually taking place while concurrently feeling proficient at handling it, even though the results are getting increasingly erratic. Of course, due to their feelings of knowing and their experience, the change is wrong, not them. It is a blame game to avoid actually recognising their own position and lack of understanding.

Of course, I might be wrong and the people who complain about, but don't learn and adjust to a changing world are the most intelligent among us, no matter how poor their results and unhappy they are.

Ok, that took more than 5 minutes.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
_{(posted from phone)}