Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.