Ego Friendly

As children most people have some sort of hobby- Baseball or Comic Books, Fly Fishing or Model Trains. Part and parcel of any obbsesive hobby is the intense desire to know all about the subject. Some kids know every Major League pitcher’s strike-out count, some know the name of every member of the Justice League of America. It all seems pretty pointless now but really, it wasn’t.

What we do when we obsess over our childhood hobbies is introduce ourselves to a truly profound fact about Wisdom. Wisdom is not just the things that have been taught to you, but the things you have taught yourself as well. In fact, studies have shown that students do better in subjects that they find interesting because their brains are actively seeking more information and facts about the subject. Whenever we are faced with a new situation or idea, it is very easy to accept things on the surface level, to take others’ words as fact and not delve in. It is only when we delve into the topic, as we once did with the minutiae of the Lionel Anniversary Edition Diesel Engine, that we can truly understand and appreciate it.

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