I have this colleague who describes a need to study for a few hours each day. I couldn't think that I'd heard an adult use the term "study" before in US English, so I suppose it stuck in my ear. It's a great word, I'm into it...
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Study isn't "I am a Job or Activity." It's not a hobby word either. It's a, "Hey, I devote attention to learning about something." You can do that forever, there is no beginning or end or done. It's an active contemplative doing.
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Heh I’ve been explicitly labeling a bunch of my time study too lately. Weird how hard it is to study as an adult. It’s perceived as frivolity on par with play. It becomes indistinguishable from its childhood opposite.
“This is serious, we don’t have time to study, we have work to do.”
Where used it’s in a different adult professional analysis sense of “study this proposal” not general topic mastery
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That child/adult flip on the term is so stark. I started thinking about how as a kid, I'd describe a lot of my unstructured play as studying. So maybe that need to spend some time figuring out is just a long arc.
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That's a scam so that employers don't have to pay for workforce development
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Not all things I study have anything to do with what I work on. For example, I would say "I study cello." I will do this for the rest of my life. It has no relationship to my employer or work life (that I can tell). But it's not a "hobby" either.
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study is anti-productivity, or it's like pitching an early stage investment to someone who only buys index funds
study isn't guaranteed to pay off, and when it does it takes a while
it consumes leisure, as in 'taking away' free time but also as in *requiring* a lot of it
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