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A dilemma with a steep learning curve.
#23481842 - 07/27/16 10:07 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Imagine this: you are taken to a horrible location in order to study HARD. To be exact, 100 days at your full capacity. It is hell on earth, they treat you like absolute shit, shout at you if you're losing focus they feed you all sorts of strange brain drugs and stimulants to keep you sharp and at night while you sleep subliminal earphones will carry on the learning process. You will have not a moment not learning, even when you eat and shit, its a nightmare.
But!
If you do this for 100 days, you'll be able to speak and understand every language in the world fluently. Not write though! Only understand every single human being's language as long as they speak coherently and speak with them in their language and dialect perfectly.
The learning process is a nightmare but despite that you need a month to come to your senses you won't be traumatized by it.
Worth it?
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Re: A dilemma with a steep learning curve. [Re: Asante] 2
#23481979 - 07/27/16 10:52 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I didn't even want to be in high school.
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Re: A dilemma with a steep learning curve. [Re: Kush_Zombie]
#23482013 - 07/27/16 11:06 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Think of the reward though!
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Re: A dilemma with a steep learning curve. [Re: Asante]
#23482032 - 07/27/16 11:15 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah, but I guess I just kind of look at it the same way I look at lifting weights. I'd rather just do a bunch of cardio and get toned, I'm not trying to get huge, just work with my body. The same goes with my mind for me. Taking drugs and earphones while I sleep is a major turn off. And you retain what you learn much better/longer when you have time to take breaks from it. If I was at a point where I felt dedicated enough to do something like this, I would rather just take the time to learn off of Rosetta Stone or whatever I needed to learn the things I found to be important.
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Re: A dilemma with a steep learning curve. [Re: Kush_Zombie]
#23482063 - 07/27/16 11:25 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'd do it. I got the brainpower for it. All I need is a disciplined structure and someone to constantly remind me to stick to it.
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Re: A dilemma with a steep learning curve. [Re: Asante]
#23482405 - 07/27/16 01:48 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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So, grad school?
I mean really though, this is pretty much describing grad school. Everyone using massive amounts of drugs to study at 110% capacity 24/7. Getting treated like shit by students/professors for losing focus even for a second/complaining/doing a not completely 110% job every time/etc. Carrying books into the bathroom to continue learning even as you shit, etc. etc.
This really exists, and it works quite well. I've never been smarter or harder working in my life than when I was in grad school. I learned more there than I did in the rest of my life combined. I've never been quite as smart or as focused since.
The downside is instead of 100 days grad school lasts 2-7 years. I'd say the burnout rate approaches 90% if you go the full 7 years. It takes a real special kind of person to actually get a PhD in something (which by the way I do not have). It is not trivial.
Anyway, my answer is yes.
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Re: A dilemma with a steep learning curve. [Re: nooneman]
#23482415 - 07/27/16 01:53 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'd do it to be able to know what any human I came into contact with was thinking/feeling. Language alone would not be reward enough for that punishment IMO.
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Re: A dilemma with a steep learning curve. [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
#23482445 - 07/27/16 02:02 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Jokeshopbeard said: I'd do it to be able to know what any human I came into contact with was thinking/feeling. Language alone would not be reward enough for that punishment IMO.
agreed most of what people say is a complete waste anyways, look at this board for example.
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ReposadoXochipilli said: agreed most of what people say is a complete waste anyways
That was my thinking too. I can only think of one person I've ever met who I would trust entirely to convey their inner state to me in words.
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