>>13182305Phenomena have patterns. Patterns that people usually understand by referring to:
>historical trends (classicism, communism, romanticism, other -isms)for example, in the USSR the communism ideology had influenced poetry, prose, art, sports, technology, fashion, laws, surveillance etc. By understanding what "communism" is, lost of thing start to click.
>mathematics and other STEM field shit (algorithms, etc.)Arithmetic is almost everywhere, integers especially. Bits (binary) can be used to encode almost anything. Lots of phenomena have growth that can be approximated by basic functions (exponential, factorial, power, etc.). Combinatorics are are everywhere, etc.
>design, architectural paradigms>philosophyStoicism is used in psychological CBT. DBT uses meditation (Buddhism). Cartesian dualism has influenced the world and how we do science in the past 300 years. Descartes basically invented the scientific method, too. Many physicists have credited the philosophers for influencing their theories and thinking (e.g. Heisenberg thought that Buddhism was greatly compatible with QM, Einstein owed a lot to Plato, Hume, Mach, Kant, etc.).
>etc...My point is that everything is a combination of other stuff. Be it mathematical stuff, or vague conceptual stuff (like philosophy, traditions, etc.). This is why, for example, lots of debates usually devolve into philosophical and religious debates.
This is why when someone becomes very good at something, let's say math, lots of things spill over from your knowledge of that field. Basically, concepts give you a larger mental vocabulary and serve as tools for decoding the world and interacting with it.
It's wrong to say that having a PhD in math can greatly make you better at, idk, politics or cooking, but it can give you a mind that can can adapt more easily to various issues, even issues that are outside of STEM.
