[August 25, 2020] Ted - John Green 'paper towns and why learning is awesome'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgDGlcxYrhQ&t=244s

Some of us learn best in the classroom, and some of us ... well, we don't. But we still love to learn, to find out new things about the world and challenge our minds. We just need to find the right place to do it, and the right community to learn with. In this charming talk, author John Green shares the world of learning he found in online video.

 

 

- The manner in which we map the world changes the world.

- The world would be a different place if we projected Europe to show it in its actual size.

- The world is changed by our maps of the world.

- The way that we choose - sort of, our personal cartographic enterprise, also shapes the map of our lives, and that in turn shapes our lives. I believe that what we map changes the life we lead.

- While maps don't show you where you will go in your life, they show you where you might go. You very rarely go to a place that isn't on your personal map.

- Why would I want to jump over all of these hurdles and have that be the end?

- I became a learner, because I found myself in a community of learners.

- All of these things, by the way, enriched my life on a literally daily basis.

- It's true that I don't use most of them for my "job", but that's not what it's about for me. It's about cartography. 

- Along the way, the map of my life got better. It got bigger. It contained more places. There were more things that might happen, more futures I might have.

- The great thing about imaging learning as cartography, instead of imagining it as arbitrary hurdles that you have to jump over, is that you see a bit of coastline, and that makes you want to see more.

- Feeling the excitement of being part of a community of learners, a community of people who are engaged together in the cartographic enterprise of trying to better understand and map the world around us.

- Smarter Every Day - Youtube

 

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*strangulation / strangling 

*nooses

*went off

*all at once

*compelling

*iambic pentameter

*correlation

*causation 

*cartography

*spotty

*inconsistent

*calculus

*well-read people

*scorching desert

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*nostalgic

*"learny"ideas

*calculus

*angular momentum

*memes

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