I agree, but I was more asking about how you think your insight about the “distance to safety” can help with that.
Well, after a bounded number of initially difficult “far-out explorations” that cover the research landscape efficiently, the hope is that almost everything is reasonably close to safety henceforth.
Interesting. My own approach is usually to collaborate/ask someone who knows the subject you want to learn. But that does require being okay with asking stupid questions.
Yes, I think your approach is ideal for the efficiency of learning if anxiety was not a factor. Unfortunately the people who know the subjects I want to learn best are people I care about impressing and/or people so well-versed in the subject that they have difficulty bridging the inferential abyss between us. At least for me it is hard to treat them as a “psychologically nearby” companion who has my back.
Even after getting much better at asking stupid questions, it feels like the maximum I feel okay with asking in a meeting with someone who knows a subject already is ~3, and not ~40, which is the number I want to ask.
Well, after a bounded number of initially difficult “far-out explorations” that cover the research landscape efficiently, the hope is that almost everything is reasonably close to safety henceforth.
Yes, I think your approach is ideal for the efficiency of learning if anxiety was not a factor. Unfortunately the people who know the subjects I want to learn best are people I care about impressing and/or people so well-versed in the subject that they have difficulty bridging the inferential abyss between us. At least for me it is hard to treat them as a “psychologically nearby” companion who has my back.
Even after getting much better at asking stupid questions, it feels like the maximum I feel okay with asking in a meeting with someone who knows a subject already is ~3, and not ~40, which is the number I want to ask.