First rule of genetics: Go and spread the genes appart!
Let´s take a second and think about your industry!
What are the people doing in your industry? What did they study? Where do they come from? Who are all those people?
Too often industries establish certain rules on how you have to be in order to join them. Think about investment bankers. They pretty much all studied the same stuff, went to the same schools, wear the same clothes, drive the same cars ( I got this one from Peter Lynch himself)...and ALL of them are married to the SAME women!!!! - just kiddin ;-)
But you get the picture.
That causes a huge problem - incest for the mind! I mean we can learn so much from nature. Why do we need to spread the genes apart? Simply because variety leads to beauty & progress while sameness leads to boring & ugly dumbness!!!
Exactly this is what often happens in certain Industries. They all live in incest! There is no former pro surfer working in the investment industry, not many star-cooks kicking it in consulting companies! Why?
Well, there are many factors for this.
One of them is that you didn´t learn in school how to do it! Every subject was separated from another - how brilliant! Math and Art, Biology and Business, Music and Language ... all these subjects have much more in common then we believe. And alot of creative power and progress in every area of life comes from "making love" between totally different kinds of subjects.
Open your eyes, ears & hearts to new things. Learn from totally different areas that have nothing to do with what you´re doing and you´ll experience variety, beauty & true creative evolutionary progress.
Have fun spreading the mind-genes apart!
Steli Efti, Education Revolutionary
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