At the risk of huffing my own flatus, I want to clarify a previous comment that I tried to recreate after my computer ate it.
Knowledge can cause problems, but navigating through problems is how people grow. I know to a certainty that plenty of war veterans would discourage the acquisition of certain types of knowledge in the strongest possible terms, citing their catastrophic impact on a person. It's true that the knowledge of some things based on experience can absolutely be detrimental to a person, but at the same time it has the potential to act as a catalyst which leads to further personal growth.
This is the bridge between knowledge and growth that I failed to spell out, and the reason I ask if there's a hypothetical sweet-spot that it's possible to overshoot in terms of personal growth or the knowledge that can lead to it. It's unclear to me. There's a tradeoff, requiring a cost/benefit analysis. Fun idle armchair conversation. I love getting lost in the weeds. It distracts from being just generally lost. ๐
