I’m 23 years old. A lover of music (Last.fm): Ravel, Mozart, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Animal Collective. And driven to learn.
My goal right now is to become a philosophy professor, and participate in radical, reason oriented movements to influence social change.
I value the intellect, the body, life, and the universe. I value learning—to improve the lives of others and myself, and to live most accordingly with ‘nature.’ I value those who direct themselves in a rational manner.
My rationality quest began when I was a child, always using legos to build new things and drawing. Eventually video games came into my life and problem solving drove me. However, due to immaturity and the social life of a middle/high schooler, I never really progress intellectually despite my love for science and ‘deep’ conversations with friends. It wasn’t until I was 20, and ended my relationship with a girl that philosophical thought dawned upon me. It was sparked by the breakup, because her family was religious and I molded myself to that lifestyle, but when it was over there was nothing there. I suppose, after losing who I thought was the love of my life, I began to search for ‘purpose.’
A few philosophy courses and a dive into Stoicism pushed me to realms of thought I had never began to contemplate. Since then I’ve been progressing my learning on my own through literature, philosophical writings, conversation, and free online references. And I found myself here because my StumbleUpon lead me to a blog from a philosophy professor who linked to this site.
I really want to become a value member of this community, to help myself and others.
You sound like a pretty studious individual; you might enjoy some of the posts on inexpensive and efficient learning, if you haven’t seen them already.
Out of curiosity, what was the name of the blog that led you here?
Hello to the LessWrong universe.
I’m 23 years old. A lover of music (Last.fm): Ravel, Mozart, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Animal Collective. And driven to learn.
My goal right now is to become a philosophy professor, and participate in radical, reason oriented movements to influence social change.
I value the intellect, the body, life, and the universe. I value learning—to improve the lives of others and myself, and to live most accordingly with ‘nature.’ I value those who direct themselves in a rational manner.
My rationality quest began when I was a child, always using legos to build new things and drawing. Eventually video games came into my life and problem solving drove me. However, due to immaturity and the social life of a middle/high schooler, I never really progress intellectually despite my love for science and ‘deep’ conversations with friends.
It wasn’t until I was 20, and ended my relationship with a girl that philosophical thought dawned upon me. It was sparked by the breakup, because her family was religious and I molded myself to that lifestyle, but when it was over there was nothing there. I suppose, after losing who I thought was the love of my life, I began to search for ‘purpose.’ A few philosophy courses and a dive into Stoicism pushed me to realms of thought I had never began to contemplate.
Since then I’ve been progressing my learning on my own through literature, philosophical writings, conversation, and free online references. And I found myself here because my StumbleUpon lead me to a blog from a philosophy professor who linked to this site.
I really want to become a value member of this community, to help myself and others.
Welcome to Less Wrong! :)
You sound like a pretty studious individual; you might enjoy some of the posts on inexpensive and efficient learning, if you haven’t seen them already.
Out of curiosity, what was the name of the blog that led you here?
Thank you!
Wow, this post you linked to is quite amazing. Thanks a bunch. (“autodidact”—I finally have a word for what I do, ha ha)
anotherpanacea—the exact post is here