![]() The problem with the modern world, as Bertrand Russell put it, is that “the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” Even after he earned a Nobel prize, the physicist Richard Feynman thought of himself as a “confused ape” and approached everything around him with the same level of curiosity, enabling him to see nuances that others dismissed. Rather, it requires a conscious type of ignorance where you become fully aware of what you don’t know in order to learn and grow. ![]() Admitting ignorance doesn’t mean remaining wilfully oblivious to facts. When we utter those three dreaded words- I don’t know-our ego deflates, our mind opens, and our ears perk up. Taking the red pill requires an admission of ignorance and a good dose of humility. The more we speak our version of the truth, preferably with passion and exaggerated hand gestures, the more our egos inflate to the size of skyscrapers-concealing what’s underneath. ![]() Certainty blinds us to our own paralysis. “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance,” as the late Stephen Hawking said, “it is the illusion of knowledge.” The pretense of knowledge closes our ears and shuts off incoming educational signals from outside sources. If the powers-that-be already decided that we use only 10% of our brains or that dietary cholesterol is inexorably bad for you, we can move on. As a result, facts become dispensable, and misinformation and pseudoscience thrive. Day after day, we choose the illusion of certainty rather than the messy reality of uncertainty. Everything he sees-from his clothes to his job-is an illusion created to blind him from the truth. He realizes that he’s been living in a fabricated reality called the Matrix-a prison for the mind created by machines to harvest energy from humans. Neo chooses the red pill, and the veil quickly drops. But if he takes the red pill, Morpheus tells Neo, “you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” That’s just what we want to show you!įollow our posts in the next few weeks for a self-discovery journey that, hopefully, will open your eyes to the new reality of the tech jobs marketplace and prepare you for the challenges of a career in tech.That’s the choice that Neo faces in the movie The Matrix. The rebel leader Morpheus tells him that if he takes the blue pill, “the story ends.” Neo will wake up in his bed and believe whatever he wants to believe. Just like you, he just needs to choose to believe in himself, to see the world with his own eyes, and with his own rules. For the story to flow, Neo needs to understand that everything he needs to unlock his full potential, lies already inside of him. Whether it’s obvious by now or not, let’s just get it out in the open: the main theme behind The Matrix’s Red Pill vs Blue Pill construct is choice. That’s one of the reasons why we rebranded this year’s Landing.careers Festival, and why we’re also aligning our brand and vision to build a Landing.jobs that could help you find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes!Ĭhoice. And we’re like, “Well, can we build an engaging journey that could help our tech professionals experience something similar while helping them better manage their careers?” What we’re trying to achieve with this is a shift, the same kind of shift that happens for Neo when he goes from being in this sort of cocooned and programmed world to have to participate in the construction of meaning to his life. $ Remember: all we’re offering is the truth. That’s precisely our goal with the Red Pill or Blue Pill series: help you see the world and your career in a brand new way. I loved the fact that a movie could challenge so much of my assumptions and give me a glimpse of a completely different perspective of the world. As a kid in junior high, that spent way too much time playing computer games, The Matrix was definitely one of the movies that I would watch over and over again.
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