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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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“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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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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