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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 think that’s a rare attitude though. Most engagement in these things is atemporal. Sports fandom sometimes acquires a bit of a sense of history, but not the studiously analytical kind.
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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 🤣