I think I'm going to fill these next few days with something that has been on my mind recently. While I am no "Philosopher Savant" nor do I pretend to know what that phrase actually means.... let's just see where this little conversation will take us.
First major topic: Learning as an active endeavor.
For me, I definitely believe that my general weakness/misgiving/thing that keeps me down, has been my concept of learning, and my pursuit of it. Learning for me has always seemed to break down into two very different fields: One is learning=education and another learning=personal enjoyment. I can make this a little clearer...
Learning as personal enjoyment means the active learning that takes place when you generally are interested in something. Be it comics, movies, books, storylines of games, games, etc. You can divulge a great part of your concentration on acquiring as much knowledge as possible for a long period of time. I would be a liar if I said that I have never spent hours reading about Mutants and the Marvel Universe on Wikipedia. So while it is very labor-intensive, the enjoyability factor glazes over everything to make your time slip away and your head to fill up.
Learning as education is the other major sphere on knowledge acquisition in my life currently. I have been lucky/cursed enough so that for a considerable part of my life education has been very active. If I didn't get it now, I would get it a few hours from now when I'm playing again, or by the second or third day. Things would connect on their own and I would understand everything quite well. That ability has been getting worse and worse, for good reason. I don't like thinking that effort can be easily succeeded with natural ability/talent/graces.
That being said, in my Arabic class, I have been very fortunate to be able to catch on quickly (in the beginning) and had no trouble doing maybe one hour of homework a day, while the teacher prescribed 4-5 hours a day. I had multiple commitments to follow-through on so it worked to my advantage. But I am no longer keeping afloat in class, the other students have built their foundations on solid effort and determination, I have tried to skirt by and now obviously failing.
For me, the class can serve as a microcosm of my own life, I do well in the beginning, fail miserably in the middle (where I am now in Arabic), then I get a big burst of energy in the end when I realize that I need to keep from getting fucked.
Thats enough for today. More tomorrow. :)
How do you view learning?
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