September 4, 2003

  • I accept a definition of intelligence I heard a while back: The ability to take in information, synthesize that information with other information into a new set of information, and communicate the new information out to the external world.

    1) Input, 2) Processing, 3) Output.

    I've been in processing and output for a while, but lately I've been shifting over to input.

    So, teaching myself to be decent at chess by playing a few times every day, reading actual books instead of just the internet, and trying to get myself away from myself from time to time.

    Reading through some of the online courses at MIT's OpenCourseWare program (concentrating on linguistics and philosophy; I'll move to rhetoric and political science soon). I figure that I could be reading the drudge report or class notes from a prof at MIT. Which do I choose?

    I'm not up to real school. I wish I was.

Comments (5)

  • Thanks for the link. It's humbling to realize how much I don't know.

  • Good stuff in, good stuff out... Or at least let's hope so.

  • One learns more when there is a genuine drive to learn --whether in a class or not. There are a myriad of reasons people go to "real school" but usually it has nothing to do with wanting to learn.

  • Feed the mind.  That's learning. School should be a lifelong experience and not a place.

  • *droool*
    (thanks for the link)

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