What is the best way to conglomerate knowledge from all works of life? Learn by subjection.
So, if you have been following my publications, you should be glued to books by now. You should probably be experiencing a bias towards text than television and images (I could be wrong but it is likely). The aim still remains to get the best of critical thinking.
Today's publication is aimed at helping you structure what you have begun to learn. If you followed my recommendation to read as much as you can, whatever it is, you might experience information glut i.e ‘too much useless information.’ But what if they are not useless? What if what you need is a structure?
Learning by subjection is simple. All you have to do is identify your strongest interest or best subject area. It could be formal subjects like mathematics, biology, physics, commerce. Or it could be less formal subjects like cryptosystem, gaming, Roman mythology, hiking. Once you have identified your best interest, you can then begin to learn other relevant information in other areas that connect to your best subject. Liken your favorite subject to a centerpiece. Build every other information in other areas around the centerpiece. Myself, I love the human psyche and human nature. That is my centerpiece. I go ahead to get knowledge in literature, Biology, chemistry, psychology, philosophy, media. I sieve out the relevant information and build them around my centerpiece of human psyche and human nature. That way it is easier to structure my learning and direct the information as relevant.
Your centerpiece is like a faucet. Use it to control the flow of information.
Your centerpiece is like a lens. You see through it and it puts the relevant image in focus.
Your centerpiece is like a buffer. It stabilizes your internal learning environment and protects it from any drastic shift.
Till we meet again
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What you know doesn't count as much as knowing what to do with what you know.” -Jegede Emmanuel.
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> All you have to do is identify your strongest interest or best subject area.
This is in essence of the "be a hammer" mindset. https://swellandcut.com/2016/10/11/be-a-hammer/
Of course that means that mental blind spots are unavoidable, and worse at times that you need a mallet, it is better to use a shoe than a hammer. In the same way, Physics Envy (maladjusted empiricism in social science) and "Theology Envy" (narrative abuse) are the two main driving forces for academia to decay. https://archive.ph/axq3P https://archive.ph/TpSuC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_envy