mega thread What are you thinking?

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 2,984]

8 hours ago, StarlightNyars said:

I used to enjoy reading and collect books outside of music as well as a child,  but then I had a family member that would harass me and make me feel bad about reading concepts outside of school. It got so bad that I stopped acquiring books and lost my love for reading for a long time. I still ended up going to university, but I only read on things for my field as what happened to me when I was younger really did have an effect on me. I went to music school for about 2 years and I felt my passion for reading came back, but then. I ended up switching majors as music school was rather expensive and would take too long to complete.  I hope to one day reignite that passion for reading and seeing your posts are reminding me about it, so I thank you for that. 

It is very unfortunate that this relative of yours extinguished this trajectory of your intellectual curiosity. Must not have had a curious mind! Hopefully this will be rectified in the future.

I will provide further elaboration on my thoughts on reading. I suppose one major reason why I have acquired the habit of reading is due to the realization that there are no figures to whom I can refer to readily provide answers for me for various questions I may have. Another is that I am dissatisfied by being merely the mouthpiece for of someone else's worldview; the task of developing my worldview is something only I could do. Early in my intellectual journey, I decided that everything I have learned up to that moment is questionable, and I must learn or relearn everything from a blank slate (of course, I did not adhere to this perfectly, but that was generally the attitude I had). One of the effects this had is that I know from where I have acquired a given idea from a specific person from a specific work to a far greater extent than I did previously (where a far greater portion of my ideas originated from ambiguous sources, hearsay, etc.).

There is a great deal of satisfaction in becoming familiar with things that were previously seemingly arcane. This is particularly the case in works that are of fundamental influence that provide a framework in which one can interpret reality. Perhaps the greatest sense of satisfaction for me is when I encounter such a fundamental work, then ideas that were previously disparate become unified under a framework; ideas I previously thought were significant but isolated were actually interrelated to other ideas as components within a much greater framework. There is what Mortimer Adler called syntopical reading in which one acquires knowledge that is attained by synthesizing ideas from multiple books.

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26 minutes ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

It is very unfortunate that this relative of yours extinguished this trajectory of your intellectual curiosity. Must not have had a curious mind! Hopefully this will be rectified in the future.

I will provide further elaboration on my thoughts on reading. I suppose one major reason why I have acquired the habit of reading is due to the realization that there are no figures to whom I can refer to readily provide answers for me for various questions I may have. Another is that I am dissatisfied by being merely the mouthpiece for of someone else's worldview; the task of developing my worldview is something only I could do. Early in my intellectual journey, I decided that everything I have learned up to that moment is questionable, and I must learn or relearn everything from a blank slate (of course, I did not adhere to this perfectly, but that was generally the attitude I had). One of the effects this had is that I know from where I have acquired a given idea from a specific person from a specific work to a far greater extent than I did previously (where a far greater portion of my ideas originated from ambiguous sources, hearsay, etc.).

There is a great deal of satisfaction in becoming familiar with things that were previously seemingly arcane. This is particularly the case in works that are of fundamental influence that provide a framework in which one can interpret reality. Perhaps the greatest sense of satisfaction for me is when I encounter such a fundamental work, then ideas that were previously disparate become unified under a framework; ideas I previously thought were significant but isolated were actually interrelated to other ideas as components within a much greater framework. There is what Mortimer Adler called syntopical reading in which one acquires knowledge that is attained by synthesizing ideas from multiple books.

Yes, it marred my intellectual curiosity for years, but I believe I made some strides since then. This person had a very obstinate worldview that everything must be proper and whatever was given to us, should be accepted. You can imagine the scintillating life they led as they were an assembly line worker their entire life.

I find your reasoning behind your pursuit of reading very admirable. I can only think of very few people that share a similar mindset of pursuing information against accepting whatever version of history on a topic that someone wants to present. It reminds me of learning history in elementary school here in America versus what you can learn outside of that system. Everything wasn't exactly sunshine and rainbows.

Oh yes, I believe I have heard of Mortimer Adler before from a business professor. He provided a framework for which contained four different levels of reading. I used a bit of that approach in regards to case study analysis when it came to certain concepts discussed at university.

 

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On 2/24/2023 at 6:18 AM, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

I can never seem to be satisfied with my backlog of books. Whenever I think that I have surely accumulated enough books to last me for some time (my current backlog provides years' worth of reading material), I then find myself buying yet more books that interest me. Am buying books faster than I can read them. But sometimes, when a deal is found--particularly for a rarer book--I often do not hesitate to purchase it immediately because I can never be sure if said book can be found again especially at a relatively reasonable price.

Makes perfect sense to me! I am also like this with DVD's.

I am thinking I should put something else on, feeling chilly.

 

 

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Why do television series release an entire season at once instead of releasing each episode, say, on a weekly basis? Is not the latter approach better for the sake of maintaining interest?

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I can’t wait for my new cert book to arrive. Going to be reviewing it for a good while until I’m ready for the examination. 

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2 hours ago, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

Why do television series release an entire season at once instead of releasing each episode, say, on a weekly basis? Is not the latter approach better for the sake of maintaining interest?

At first I didn’t get this either and was accustomed to the old model of advertising and maintaining interest on a weekly basis. They still keep this tried and true method to this day with many shows. 

However, with the dawn of streaming series, came the concept of binge watching and that had people quickly binge watching shows who wanted to be in the loop and did not want to wait for episodes. It reminds me of the similar notion with keeping up with next season’s fashion trend and people wanting to be a part of it. It’s makes as big of an impact initially since people are scrambling to keep up with the trend. I’ve seen its effect at the office several times with all these new shows on Netflix. People would talk and make references throughout a few months on different shows. My coworkers also bought a lot of merchandise, so I can say that the binge watching method works to some extent. 

 

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