Individual Knowledge

Everybody tends to be curious about something in their life. When they take interest in it they usually gain some form of understanding of said subject/subjects. Regarding that, I would like to ask a few questions for those interested. 1. What would you say is your main reasoning in learning new things? 2. If you were to look back at all of the things you learned how much do you think you retained and used up til this point? 3. If for exam purposes you were given a choice between a textbook centered around the exam and a guide that is primarily for passing the exam which would you choose? 4. Which do you think is more important when looking over new information. Making sure that the information is valid based on current knowledge or understanding it with personal conclusions? Lastly what is more important to you the pursuit of new things that you didnt know or confirming things that you believe are true?

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. What would you say is your main reasoning in learning new things? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sometimes the reason is practical. I need to change a car battery. I need to change a car tire. I need to learn basic code writing for a game project. I need to establish a longer lasting energy ward to keep the bad thing from psychologically tormenting a friend's dreams, because they can't be bothered to do the energy work themselves due to superstitious reasons. Other times, its the wonder of discovery. I love learning about the high medieval ages. I love sociology and folklore. I'm fascinated by evolutionary psychology. Animals are awesome. I want to learn what magical powers the capybara possesses to be able to make friends with literally everything! http://cdn.lifebuzz.com/images/129390/lifebuzz-57bb5a4c7f6dd82e30ca5fdf71dc5ead-limit_2000.jpg ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2. If you were to look back at all of the things you learned how much do you think you retained and used up til this point? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About 60% of it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3. If for exam purposes you were given a choice between a textbook centered around the exam and a guide that is primarily for passing the exam which would you choose? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Probably the textbook, but the guide is more compatible based on my general ADHD learning style. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4. Which do you think is more important when looking over new information. Making sure that the information is valid based on current knowledge or understanding it with personal conclusions? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I can't say for sure which is more important, but I am an INFP personality type, so I certainly use more personal conclusions when it comes to processing internal data. It helps me cross reference what I know with what someone else is trying to convey to me. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5: Lastly what is more important to you? The pursuit of new things that you didn't know or confirming things that you believe are true? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Well, I find nothing wrong with a belief being proven wrong.

1. What would you say is your main reasoning in learning new things? "knowing things" as in assuming that what i learn is true. and if it isn't replacing it with whatever is. 2. If you were to look back at all of the things you learned how much do you think you retained and used up til this point? only my nerdy hobbies i retained. and i use them a lot. computer knowledge, jet knowledge, knowledge of healing in mmorpg's, mmorpg knowledge, gaming knowledge, anime knowledge, various misc knowledge of other nerd stuff. 3. If for exam purposes you were given a choice between a textbook centered around the exam and a guide that is primarily for passing the exam which would you choose? textbook 4. Which do you think is more important when looking over new information. Making sure that the information is valid based on current knowledge or understanding it with personal conclusions? Both. 5.Lastly what is more important to you the pursuit of new things that you didnt know or confirming things that you believe are true? the second is partially true. i prefer to confirm things to be true regardless of whether i believe in them or not, and if i no longer find them to be true, i switch my beliefs even if i don't like the truth. my belief is in the truth.

1. What would you say is your main reasoning in learning new things? So I don't find myself lost in conversation when dealing with certain people lol. Nothing worse than debating/arguing about something and you don't know shit .-. I also just enjoy learning in general, you never know when "Knowing" a thing might come in handy..plus! I like to be ready for the Jehovah's Witness when they pop up lol. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2. If you were to look back at all of the things you learned how much do you think you retained and used up til this point? Hm some of the things I learned in school are pretty much nonexistent in my head lol. My pops was real big on me learning "Real Skills" as he put it. Stuff like changing your oil, changing your tire, landscaping, starting a campfire, how to fix things around the house, how to cook for yourself, how to fish, etc. Everything I learned from him growing up is what I've retained the most and it's carried me pretty far. Though I think I retained most of that because I actually have to get off my ass and do it. Ah I've also retained most things I learned when I was studying Mortuary Science. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3. If for exam purposes you were given a choice between a textbook centered around the exam and a guide that is primarily for passing the exam which would you choose? The textbook. I only know that from experience, I tried to take an exam once with just a guide/study guide..and it didn't work out well. That's just me though, I know people who would ace an exam on just a guide alone. I'm pretty serious when it comes to preparing for anything. The guide might show me a compact or summarized version of what I need to know..instead of going into detail. I'm a guy who needs how you do something from start to finish..with all the details in between. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4. Which do you think is more important when looking over new information. Making sure that the information is valid based on current knowledge or understanding it with personal conclusions? Hmm both. Whenever I'm looking over new info I like to make sure It's valid and I want to be sure I understand it for what it is. My own personal conclusions are what I come up with later. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Lastly what is more important to you the pursuit of new things that you didn't know or confirming things that you believe are true? Pursuing new things. There's some stuff that I don't need to confirm, sometimes I may tell myself something is true..but deep down I know better.

（＾∀＾）I found an interesting thread. 1. What would you say is your main reasoning in learning new things? To rid myself of prejudices and narrow-mindedness. To analyze problems from more perspectives; To kill time;To see a wider world, though I'm confined to this place. In an effort to win back what I lost when I was born 2. If you were to look back at all of the things you learned how much do you think you retained and used up til this point? I internalized much of what I learnt. 3. If for exam purposes you were given a choice between a textbook centered around the exam and a guide that is primarily for passing the exam which would you choose? A guide that is primarily for passing the exam.Because probably I already complete reading that textbook heh. 4. Which do you think is more important when looking over new information. Making sure that the information is valid based on current knowledge or understanding it with personal conclusions? Both 5: Lastly what is more important to you? The pursuit of new things that you didn't know or confirming things that you believe are true? The pursuit of new things.

1. To better understand the world, mankind, and myself (not necessarily in that order). 20. Impossible to answer. Obviously I can't know how much I have retained, because all that I did not I have forgotten. And what does "use" mean in this context? Practical use? Is increasing your knowledge and improving your comprehension not use enough? 33. Neither, nor. I have never used books when I had to learn for an exam, I only studied the notes I have taken during classes. Was enough to get me through school without too many hiccups. 451. The latter is impossible without the former. How do you want to understand something, if the information you have is invalid? And of what use is all the valid data, if you don't want to draw your own conclusions from it? So, obviously both are equally important. 6. Both again. Learning new things keeps your mind flexible and improves your overall understanding, but once in a while you should check, if your presumed knowledge is still backed up by the facts.