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Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.
It's proved that kids that name their chicken, pig, lamb, rabbit, fish, dog or horse cannot accept them to be killed and cannot eat them. thus numbers on farm cattle.
This might be one of the reasons why some competitive gaming communities seem so joyless after a while.
You know it's a good game when you can reflect back on a match you lost and think "yeah that was worth it, I had fun."
This makes sense to me. Watch a movie with someone who took film, especially film production, classes and have them explain it to you afterwards.
You quickly learn to never dissect books that you love, because after you do, you'll never be able to enjoy reading that book again.
This might be one of the reasons why some competitive gaming communities seem so joyless after a while.
Those games are frustrating on purpose.
Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.
Just my personal experience, but I would say this does not hold with regard to observing nature. Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, I care more about it, and I enjoy seeing it, and connecting that knowledge with other ecological knowledge.
> Once I know the name of a new fly, fish, or flower, Does knowing the name of something make you an expert? I am not sure, I think perhaps the definition of "expertise" at use in this paper is more precise and demands more. I am not familiar with this area of research, it appears to me that this paper draws on a well-understood meaning of "expertise", probably one that is established in one or several of the citatio…
Perhaps this holds true more to fields that stem from hedonic experiences themselves like the arts, sports, games etc. I felt this way about music after graduating from music school. I became bored and jaded to music and had to spend several years not consuming music at all. Eventually I regained my love of it. Conversely I don’t think this applies as much to sciences. After I pivoted away from music to become a soft…