To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, subtract things everyday. ~Lao Tsu
As important as it is to learn new things sometimes it's just as important to unlearn things.
This is a video of one of the founders of 37 Signals, David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, given to students of the Stanford MBA Program. (58 min)
It's entitled "Unlearn your MBA" and I think he makes some very important points. He also make some rather controversial statements. Some of them being:
96.7% of his college education was time wasted.
Veer away from the Heavy Management Theory. It's irrelevant.
Communication needs to be simple and straight forward. Cut out the big words!
Planning more than 2 months into the future is just a waste of time.
And there's more!
Some more resources for Unlearning
The Institute of Unlearning
Unlearning 101
FranklinCovey Unlearning - I love this analogy... "Pursuing a course of higher learning without having properly unlearned is akin to rolling naked in a mud puddle before dressing in a tuxedo. No matter how great the suit looks, you still need a bath."
The future isn't in learning... it's unlearning!
Destruction and Creation by Col. John R. Boyd
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