I always found the arts of rationality to be fun to practice, but I think they would be a lot less fun if they didn’t lead anywhere. This is probably the reason why I enjoyed Raymond Smullyan’s puzzles more than textbook exercises, because solving Smullyan’s puzzles gave some fictional benefit that you could read about, whereas a lot of textbook exercises seem disconnected from reality.
I always found the arts of rationality to be fun to practice, but I think they would be a lot less fun if they didn’t lead anywhere. This is probably the reason why I enjoyed Raymond Smullyan’s puzzles more than textbook exercises, because solving Smullyan’s puzzles gave some fictional benefit that you could read about, whereas a lot of textbook exercises seem disconnected from reality.