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Clever way to motivate himself to study, though I wonder if it worked more by physically separating himself from his phone more than it psychologically encourag
by zahma 4y ago
Clever way to motivate himself to study, though I wonder if it worked more by physically separating himself from his phone more than it psychologically encouraged him to do what he said the stream was for.
For others, I’m kind of mystified. Maybe it also works to separate one’s eyes from the feed. But some of the quotes mention people checking in because they wanted to study with another person. How lonely we must be as a society if that’s true in aggregate? In uni, we all would show up in conference rooms even if we weren’t actively talking through concepts or problems. That gave us a sense of collective struggle through finals week. This seems to me like another example of social media induced detachment.
- lupire 4y agoWe are only lonely when we aren't social. Joining a stream is the opposite of loneliness. This is social media induced attachment. Would you say people at bars and cafes and libraries and churches are lonely? Only as much as people at a restaurant are hungry.
- smrq 4y agoLots of people in those places are lonely, yes. Have you never been lonely while surrounded by people before?
- dunefox 4y agoAt my university we didn't have study rooms, only regular lecture halls and rooms that were either locked or in use. We had to study at the cafeteria which worked as well as you'd expect. So we studied in a small group of 3-4 people at someone's place if possible or via discord.
- teruakohatu 4y agoIs studying at university and public libraries not a thing elsewhere? At the universities here you have to get up early to grab a good seat on one of the better floors (higher/better view and smaller/less noisy) around the end of semester. The public libraries are usually full of university and non-university students on Saturday mornings. Charging points are highly prized.
- dunefox 4y agoAt a library you can't talk, so that's quite useless.
- macintux 4y agoThat may be a regional/cultural difference. Certainly loud talking has always been discouraged in my neck of the woods, but there are now quiet study rooms, and everywhere else talking is more acceptable.
- dunefox 4y agoWell, I'm in Germany, here you get strung up for talking in a library.