Thoughts Of A Guy Named Mason

Learning about what I want to learn about

For a few months I have felt the problem that I am interested in too many things. This was mostly sparked by brainstorming what am I going to do for SACE(Year 11 and 12 in South Australia) as I would need to plan that next year. A few days ago I would have had a very large list of things;

And when I made that list I had no idea how I would possibly manage to make learning plan for SACE with that. I was asking myself 'What do I study to accomplish learning about those things?' When really I feel the question should have been

'What general topic do all of my interests converge at?'

Which I immediately had an answer to; Humans and systems. If I had to extrapolate that right now it would end up being;

Humans and their effects on and from the systems they inhabit.

Which I feel is a much more solid thing to say I want to learn about, a lot of the other things were very broad. This allows me to pinpoint on depth in something.

I heard an analogy once, T shaped skills, I heard it in the context of having a lot of breadth with the bar at the top and needing to find a spot to make the stem of the T with depth in something. The Wikipedia page says the stem is someones depth and the top bar their ability to work across disciplines. I predict that most people end up building their top bar after their depth, but I am the opposite.

However still 'Humans and systems' is very broad. Which is probably great for this mid-long term thinking - it will allow me to pinpoint specific things that get my interest better.

I cannot really make a list of specific things that fall under this umbrella because I don't understand what they are and don't really feel like learning about that all right now. But I do know they are there, I will recognise what they are off my intuition throughout my experiences in the next year before I actually need a plan for SACE.