Dunce

>>9794402
When i was your age i felt empty-minded, but i loved reading.
What youre doing now is gathering material, setting it adrift, adding more, and waiting for it all to come together. It will.
If nothing else right now youre honest, and that's a strong first step.

>>9794438
>It will.
Don't be so convinced. Things don't magically work themselves out on their own.
>>9794402
In order to learn something you need to get practice. Don't just think really hard about. Think really hard about it and then try to apply it and see what happens. Then think really hard about it again.

The secret is: repetition.

>>9794475
or learn to retain information more efficiently.

>>9794402
Most knowledge is provisional bro so don't feel bad. The more you learn you will realize how little can be known. When you "know" alot you will realize how many mysteries there are, but at least you can identify what is a genuinely unsolvable mystery and what is a gap in your own personal knowledge base.

>>9794484
Yes, repetition is the primary technique though.

>>9794438
>>9794459
>>9794475
>>9794484
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>>9794553
Thank you for all of your insights. It really does help to hear from another group of people that are more like me. Hope you all have a nice day!

>>9794459
>don't be so convinced
I don't know, anon. But for instance, I studied Classics and for a longish while I felt I would never be able to read (Attic) Greek adequately, but then one day the verbal system just seemed to snap into place (as if by magic) and I was off and running. Of course this took study, application but what sustained me through the process was a kind of faith that a something would 'just happen' that I really couldn't anticipate, and one day it really did.
I really have no idea HOW the mind organizes and strengthens itself, but I do know (for a season at least) it does. 'Study' in a sense is 'active faith,' or why study?