Warning: This isn't going to be my best entry. I'm just awfully tired, and honestly, I don't really want to write an entry. But, if I begin to take breaks whenever I want to, I fear that those breaks will just become too convenient, and as with most projects I begin, it'll just fall to the way side. I don't want that to happen. I want to commit. So this entry is more of a matter of principle. So yeah. Sorry about that.

As some of you might know, I love my maths textbook. And I've read all my maths textbooks cover to cover ever since Year 7. Which some find strange.

A large proportion of the textbook isn't really used in the year, and some chapters are really just filler, with no real significance for the coming years of further study. So they see no real use of reading the textbook. Which is fair. I can understand your point of view. It provides no real benefit, and it's not fun.

Well, except for that last point. I like reading my textbook because it's outrageously fun. I mean, I'm doing the Year 12 Specialist book and we only do 4 chapters out of that book. But I'm determined to finish the whole thing. Because it's pretty bloody fun.

And I've wondered, what's so fun about reading a textbook? I mean, really, what's so great about it? And I've come to the conclusion that it's the fact that I've learnt from it. See, I really like learning new things, and I especially like it when I can learn new things from that new thing by connecting that new thing I learnt to the old thing I learnt. I just love that feeling. That excitement when you realize how connected everything really is. How what you learnt isn't for just the sake of learning it (which isn't a bad thing per say, just not as good).

I mean, that's probably the biggest reason why calculus is so amazing. I loved how everything made sense. How it justified years of learning graphs with specific arbitrary rules (which if you look at it, aren't so specific

Either way, I wondered if this translates to all aspects of life, and I'm inclined to agree. I think we have a fantastic time whenever we learn something new. I mean, maybe it's not an euphoric feeling, which is the way I feel, but I bet there's something there. It's kind of like humor really. For example, you're expecting a response to a normal statement. But the humorous response has a unexpected turn, which is something you learn. The reason why it's not funny the second time is because you learnt the unexpected response, and thus you haven't learnt anything the second time around.

Course this doesn't have any scientific backing, and it's just me gushing about how fun it is to read textbooks (which you should do too). I did warn ya, didn't I?