{"id":54,"date":"2012-04-30T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T20:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learning.ejohnlovebooks.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2012-05-01T07:43:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:43:14","slug":"i-am-a-perpetual-student-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/i-am-a-perpetual-student-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a perpetual student."},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

This site is an experiment. It’s my attempt to document the wide array of personal interests, curiosities, and self-directed learning efforts which continually seem to occupy my off-hours.<\/h2>\n

My interests tend to vary<\/strong><\/span> – I tend to hop around a lot conceptually, in terms of what motivates or excites me.<\/p>\n

I go through phases;<\/strong><\/span> minor obsessions with very different topics or areas of interest. Like the avante-garde pop of Devo, or the social commentary of Popeye and Groucho Marx, or the design philosophies of the Bauhaus, or Einstein’s Relativity. I have always tended to hop laterally from subject to subject, and then try to integrate and assimilate that new information into what I already know.<\/p>\n

I’m mostly a visual learner. I need to see and make images to help me understand.<\/strong><\/span> So, aside from the chronological, bloggy aspect of this site, I thought that it would good to have an image portfolio to show any research that I do, or to show illustrations that helped me to get to where I wanted to go.<\/p>\n

Somewhere there are connections – common threads – between all these various areas of interest. Finding those threads and tugging on them is part of the joy of discovery.<\/h3>\n

I am a life-long learner, and probably, a perpetual student.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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