I love learning in a similar way.
Have been addicted to learning for about 36 1/2 yrs, since age 3, and still stand amazed at how little I actually know after all the reading and study I have committed to over the years.
As I have gotten older, I have begun to apply and reap the benefit of the old adage "It is far more useful to know a lot about a little than it is to know a little about a lot"
One realm of knowledge many take for granted (even people who study only from present opinion or studies and ignore the great deal of context you gain from older works of study or citation from antiquity)
It also pays to stay focused on expanding your vocabulary, not to exclude some study on philology (study of language and its origins) and etymology (study of the origin or words and/or phrases), as well as such noble spans of knowledge as philosophy (Greek, 2 base words: fileo-love of, sophia-truth), epistemology (study of the nature of truth), ontology (study of the nature of being), as well as a good study of the widely disseminated works of antiquity and to where such works were spread and how culture was influenced, also good too to know some of what is commonly called "superstitions or hidden knowledge" as some very interesting changes of perspective are liable to expand the base of knowledge from which a person questions reality are likely to occur.
Sure, dry summaries can at times with such subjects seem at first uninspiring or else boring, but adding serious studies of history to your diet along with a refined perspective of, not only the minutia or flagrant details so commonly obsessed about in the present, but also the more fundamental questions about reality, I promise you, will alter not only what you know and choose to learn, but will change your prerogatives in learning and improve your sense of not only what is worth learning and retaining and what is worth taking with a grain of salt.
Just because something is a trinket of knowledge that can be verified as true or factual does by no means or in any wise improve its value or mean that it is a useful fragment of truth.
God bless on your quest and thirst for knowledge and may it yield both truth and meaning for you and refine your mental stock by broad and expansive leaps and bounds.
Remember this irony: The ancients continue to succeed over the triumphs of the modern despite that written knowledge is more widely available and easier to access than at any other point in recorded history, yet the problem is not that the truth is unavailable or inaccessible, but that it is so accessible we take the majority of it for granted in terms of the scale of its importance; we know where to look often and what to find, but what good results if we have ceased to care either way?
Is it normal that I have an actual addiction to knowledge?
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I love learning in a similar way.
Have been addicted to learning for about 36 1/2 yrs, since age 3, and still stand amazed at how little I actually know after all the reading and study I have committed to over the years.
As I have gotten older, I have begun to apply and reap the benefit of the old adage "It is far more useful to know a lot about a little than it is to know a little about a lot"
One realm of knowledge many take for granted (even people who study only from present opinion or studies and ignore the great deal of context you gain from older works of study or citation from antiquity)
It also pays to stay focused on expanding your vocabulary, not to exclude some study on philology (study of language and its origins) and etymology (study of the origin or words and/or phrases), as well as such noble spans of knowledge as philosophy (Greek, 2 base words: fileo-love of, sophia-truth), epistemology (study of the nature of truth), ontology (study of the nature of being), as well as a good study of the widely disseminated works of antiquity and to where such works were spread and how culture was influenced, also good too to know some of what is commonly called "superstitions or hidden knowledge" as some very interesting changes of perspective are liable to expand the base of knowledge from which a person questions reality are likely to occur.
Sure, dry summaries can at times with such subjects seem at first uninspiring or else boring, but adding serious studies of history to your diet along with a refined perspective of, not only the minutia or flagrant details so commonly obsessed about in the present, but also the more fundamental questions about reality, I promise you, will alter not only what you know and choose to learn, but will change your prerogatives in learning and improve your sense of not only what is worth learning and retaining and what is worth taking with a grain of salt.
Just because something is a trinket of knowledge that can be verified as true or factual does by no means or in any wise improve its value or mean that it is a useful fragment of truth.
God bless on your quest and thirst for knowledge and may it yield both truth and meaning for you and refine your mental stock by broad and expansive leaps and bounds.
Remember this irony: The ancients continue to succeed over the triumphs of the modern despite that written knowledge is more widely available and easier to access than at any other point in recorded history, yet the problem is not that the truth is unavailable or inaccessible, but that it is so accessible we take the majority of it for granted in terms of the scale of its importance; we know where to look often and what to find, but what good results if we have ceased to care either way?