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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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I didn’t study much, but when I did get into a subject I’d study it far beyond the needs of school syllabus, if it was on syllabus at all. So I had a weird rep as the kid who breezed through school work unlike the conscientious but not bright ones who were considered “studious”
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Interested in almost everything including fortunately almost all school subjects. Outside of syllabus, astronomy, airplanes, world history got to study level. To some extent if I found a good self-study book on any subject I’d study it. Study books are rare, unlike textbooks.
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Actual study takes dedicated time though. I’d say ~2-3h a week for an information based subject like history, and ~10-15h for a practice based one like math. Study is a level up from mere interest. I was interested in everything but didn’t study everything.
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Mayny people do study something already, they just don't quite know they're doing it. Like gym people/diet people. I don't know what they are doing over there but it's something that looks studying-ish to me.
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Yeah, but I’m inclined to reserve the label for subjects larger than yourself. Something that plugs into a tradition of study that evolves in history in an accumulation process. Exercise and diet rarely rise to that level. I guess a sense of history feels necessary to me.
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Interesting, I supposed I can't imagine a topic that isn't related to big frames (we are historical subjects). This might be my projection that I see diet and read material cultures of piety and devotion meets self-fashioning in these political-economic conditions. ...
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I used to be good at quizzing in high school (quiz bowl in the US), but not through prep for quizzing itself. It was a side effect of just studying a lot of things more deeply. My buddies on the quiz teams who directly prepped by memorizing standard quiz material were envious 🤣
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I bet if people had more words for talking about what they are interested in some really interesting enduring interests would emerge. Some interests have clearer paths to connect dots than others.
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This interest in study as opposed to shallow curiosity or drive-by interest is I think a big part of why cozyweb cultures have emerged and are stealing attention from public social media. The for eg is literally a set of study groups (explicitly labeled as such)
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