Learning is much more successful when it is fun.
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Replying to @rhyolight
If you learn to learn based on fun most of your actual learning will be less successful.
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Replying to @Plinz
If you spend your whole life actively exploring and learning about the things that truly interest you, learning will be fun and successful. I find learning to be inherently pleasant. I see your point only if when you are required to learn uninteresting things.
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Replying to @rhyolight
Most relevant things that we have to learn in real life, like how to do taxes, brush shoes, write a glossary to a PhD thesis, clean a clogged pipe, deploy a Python app on MacOS, change diapers, solve integrals, review bad conference papers are neither fun nor interesting.
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Replying to @Plinz @rhyolight
All of those things can be fun depending on context and, perhaps, how you define fun.
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Perhaps there is a way to make most things fun. Then "learning should be fun" is an statement about how to approach what you learn rather than about what to learn
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To give a drastic example: if you think that learning to care for a dying relative can mostly be made fun, you might have a very strange personality. More generally, fun is really not the point of life.
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I said "most" precisely to avoid these. I am reminded of Feynman's "The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion". Perhaps, fun and compassion (under common defs) are the main components of what you call meaning.
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I will never understand the idea that meaning has anything to do with fun.
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The most fun I've personally had has been discovering difficult and interesting math/science concepts. I believe one of the main reasons it was fun is because these moments connected many dots, i.e. were really meaningful (under my def)
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I agree, there are things we learn just because they are fun. It is just that the inverse does not hold: it is dangerous to make our ability to learn dependent on the content being fun.
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Hm. Well there is also a widespread belief (mostly in older generations) that learning shouldn't be fun. I think that belief is waay more dangerous.
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