Twelve years after I finished high school, I earned a bachelor\u2019s degree. Every day of those twelve years, I felt it\u2019s lack. I wanted that BA. I deserved that BA. I should have it ALREADY!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The wind that pushed me my whole adult life vanished. While I was proud of the accomplishment, I looked over my shoulders for something. I didn\u2019t know this world anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was a change I\u2019d chased and once achieved everything went quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thomas Kuhn noticed a pattern for this \u201ceverything changed\u201d situation. The Structure of Scientific Revolution, published in 1962, tracks how the provable and reliable shifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Science is definitely repeatable, and therefore reliable. It happens again and again in the same way. The sun rises, and that apple falls when I drop it. Water is wet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t get too comfortable. Things are rock solid reliable until people \u2013scientists\u2014start to notice where it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once an aberration is seen, they multiply. Why? Maybe I don\u2019t understand the rules. Maybe I need another rule that bring it all into a working system again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then it seems like the system is broken, and a whole new one is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019d spent time on that broken system. There is good stuff in it! Surely if I jiggle the handle and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s clear it is used up. I\u2019m going to have to learn a new map. Kuhn calls it a paradigm shift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After my college degree, I found something else to push for. It took some time. It was a long time ago. The pattern is repeating again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the part where I know I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eerie silence fills the space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m going to have to look around for a system to use. I know I\u2019m going to have to figure out what is next for me, after the last several years. I was really good at a lot of things that don\u2019t appeal to me anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019d like to fill that silence by laughing at myself. Here it is again. I\u2019ll look in the forgotten places and make something new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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