I’ve heard it said more than once that you can’t teach passion, but I’d always taken that as the empty sputtering of those who simply do not know what passion is or what inspires it.
Could you elaborate on this? You sound very certain for someone whom I wouldn’t expect to have much background on the subject.
=/ The conveyance of passion is not an esoteric subject. Anyone who’s spent a significant portion of their life as a student will have seen it happen, on and off. We might be talking about different things, of course. I’m only talking about passion the spark, which is liable to fizzle out if it’s not immediately and actively fed, whereas I’d expect more extensive investigations into passion to focus on passion the blaze, a phenomenon has greater measurable impact, a passion well enough established to spread itself over new resources and keep feeding itself. (although with programming there’s less of a difference between the two, since there’s an abundance of resources.)
Aside from that, my prior for the probability of a complex of human thought being impossible to transmit from one mind to another is just extremely low. IME when a person who is not a poet, or a writer, or a rationalist or an artist says that a thought can’t be communicated or explained, that’s coming from a place of ignorance. People who are not rationalists rarely ever properly explain anything, nor do they usually require proper explanations. People who are not poets, who do not read poetry, have no sense of the limits of what can be expressed. When one of these people says that something can’t be expressed, they are bullshitting. They do not know. They could not possibly know.
Could you elaborate on this? You sound very certain for someone whom I wouldn’t expect to have much background on the subject.
=/ The conveyance of passion is not an esoteric subject. Anyone who’s spent a significant portion of their life as a student will have seen it happen, on and off. We might be talking about different things, of course. I’m only talking about passion the spark, which is liable to fizzle out if it’s not immediately and actively fed, whereas I’d expect more extensive investigations into passion to focus on passion the blaze, a phenomenon has greater measurable impact, a passion well enough established to spread itself over new resources and keep feeding itself. (although with programming there’s less of a difference between the two, since there’s an abundance of resources.)
Aside from that, my prior for the probability of a complex of human thought being impossible to transmit from one mind to another is just extremely low. IME when a person who is not a poet, or a writer, or a rationalist or an artist says that a thought can’t be communicated or explained, that’s coming from a place of ignorance. People who are not rationalists rarely ever properly explain anything, nor do they usually require proper explanations. People who are not poets, who do not read poetry, have no sense of the limits of what can be expressed. When one of these people says that something can’t be expressed, they are bullshitting. They do not know. They could not possibly know.
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