Like many of my colleagues I went to a professional school (Engineering), then a business school.
I dutifully did all my assignments, got good marks and climbed up the ladder.
Nobody told me about the glasses I'd been given. Nobody told me that they would distort my image of the world.
Nobody told me it would take a decade or more to learn to see clearly again. And I was lucky...
People got to professional schools and business schools with the best of intentions.
They want a better job, more responsibility and higher pay -- all worthy & admirable goals.
But my professors never told me they were teaching dysfunctional mental models.
(Getting the Right Things Done and The Remedy express my thoughts on mental models.)
Probably, they didn't even realize it themselves.
They too, were just trying to make their way in their careers, seeking the path of least resistance.
But ideas have legs. Dysfunctional mental models mutate, and debilitate their host.
The result?
Smart, well-educate, capable people who have forgotten the basics.
As my dad used to say (about me), "Too much school destroys the mind..."
Regards,
Pascal
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