Just A Little Inner Thoughts On The Art Of Learning

This is not the usual post

No, today I want to share a thought that came up to me.

So today I didn´t have lot of homework so I took the time to slack and watch some Youtube videos, and I found this great video by Core-A Gaming called “Why Fighting Games Are Hard”(yeah, I´m a HUGE fighting games fan) if you haven´t seen it and are somewhat interested go here, it is really quite interesting.

But I watch fighting game videos a lot of the time. What struck me as interesting is that just yesterday professor Ken(Hi Ken) told us about learning, that it is not a thing of just memorization, but of understanding and knowing how to apply that memorization, and that it´s not easy and IT´S OKAY TO FAIL. And that´s exactly what the video is about(in it´s own terms, of course).

The thing to understand is that as Gerald(Core-A Gaming´s narrator) said “learning is about pushing forward despite the obstacles, ´cause you won´t be able to avoid them” but then, if learning is so hard why do we go through it? Well, that´s what I think fighting games are able to teach you.

I think that we as people are just curious by nature, curiosity has been a consequence of evolution, because when you learn something new, it´s not readilty noticable so I don´t think we do it for vanity. And not every knowledge is useful, that´s why trivia exist.But it is a natural desire to differentiate ourselves, and even more in this age where overpopulation is a real problem. Because when we know something we differentiate ourselves from someone who doesn´t, and really learning something is the easiest way to do it, you don´t require natural skill or features.

Isaac Asimov once said

there would be a time when people can learn things at their own pace, then humans will re-take the liking for learning. That is what makes Ken´s classes a lot more interesting, it´s like an open source(post coming soon). You can choose your pace, and even your research topics. It´s just a shame that I´m not even remotely interested in the things he teaches. Ken is the best professor I´ve ever met, he´s not just a professor for me.

Credits to Evolution World Championship for the picture