I get sidetracked in my chatter. Just go with it.
I can relate to the moment where Elon gets upset because people who are professionals in your field of interest can bite at you when they are part of your inspiration.
I myself have had professionals try to destroy the lives of me and my son through lies and misinformation when we are two rather kind, and loving, individuals, despite the fact that we are bullied from time to time.
Annoyingly, others joined in. Unbeknownst to them, they were judging based on false and misinformation.
It’s an unfortunate truth that we have preconceived notions about each other, and that sometimes, no matter how many times we speak the truth, society still doesn’t want to listen.
I’m sure when Elon said, “I’m going to build a rocket.”, there were many people who laughed at him and didn’t take him seriously. They thought he was a madman when he was simply being the genuine genius that he is. We all could easily imagine the things that were said about him, and how they tried to put him in a box. Emotional and verbal abuse can change people. It causes people to be on the defensive who otherwise would not, and can trigger a coldness in you that is colder than the Boomerang Nebula. That’s why I say, “What happened to you?” when I see people who are crying or upset. I don’t bully them further by calling them crybabies, losers, or weak, and I don’t listen to their stories just to make me feel better about my life. My interest is usually geared towards what I can do to help them solve their problem.
I do wonder what Elon must have been like as a child because he’s such a brave man today.
Raising an intelligent person 20 years ago before the building of an extremely socially engineered society was much easier. That’s why it’s very hard to listen when people who don’t have children or haven’t had children in a very long time speak about what parents need, and what they should do. It’s like talking to the living dead.
We have become extremely naïve in trying to equate real life experience with textbook knowledge. Having a college degree and being educated are two different things. I’m personally exhausted by explaining the false equivalency on this matter.
People who go the traditional route can, and often do, get jealous of people who didn’t, or didn’t have to. The traditionalists then try to force our intelligent children down a very cut-and-dry path that can hinder their desires to learn. Even worse, some scholars can become rather defensive, making it harder for the naturally talented people to do their jobs by creating unnecessary obstacles, multiplying requirements, and pop quizzing them like their entire lives have to be focused on proving they are good enough. Why would we create such a mountain to climb for the gifted and people with neurodiversity?
This is not a declaration that traditional schooling is bad. This is just an observation and an experience of life.
I am just saying that individuals who don’t have experience with actually raising children in this generation, or the simply uninformed, could be making modifications that are not adaptive, compatible, or sustainable in today’s society, or even in the next five years. That is not long-term thinking.
If we view people from the framework of being living technology, we can create better policies and make much better decisions. If there is a shortcoming in an individual, do we view them as garbage to be thrown away, or as something to be refurbished and modified?
This is an intimate question that each individual can, and must, answer for themselves.