Word of the Month.
My favorite word at the moment:
I read something about this in university, in one of the libraries at the AS Hall. It was raining that day, very hot outside. The lady outside the library who made photocopies for 25 centavos per page I think it was, was on her lunch break. I didn't have money for lunch. I had a shitload of reading backed up for 2 literature classes. I had one highlighting pen, neon green. I had a couple of cigarettes in my crumpled Marlboro soft pack; I was saving them for a colder moment, when I would need a smoke.
I remember all of this vividly, because I wrote it all down on a piece of yellow paper. Pretending I was writing a paper, like everyone else in that library. I felt like I was the dumbest, stupidest, most brainless piece of kak within a 500-mile radius. I wondered how I got into the university when there I was, already struggling with my studies, freshman college, and all my batch mates seem to be breezing through every single fucking class.
And there it was, on one of the books I was reading. For Philosophy I.
Etho, it said, to become accustomed to something. Habit, maybe. And out of this habit, comes expertise.
University isn't only about being smart, is it. It's also about developing habits that would make one smartER.
Now, I hear M. Gladwell is talking about it.
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