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Some days ago I got an idea. Maybe it’s because I need to get back to school, but I really want to expand my knowledge. Make it wider. As it is right now it’s quite narrow, limited to specific things that I know a fair amount about. I have only digged into things I needed or were forced to know something about. It could be due to interest or schoolwork. My narrow-mindedness has become particularly bad since I started on the university last year. Before that I was regularly learning new stuff in school.

The way I am going to do this is make a list of topics of my interests, pick a topic, process it to an unknown extend, finish it and pick a new one. There has to be no pressure. The picking of topics I haven’t really sorted out yet but it can be anything – science, space, history, biology, psychology, people. I probably won’t pick something that involves computers. There’s enough of that in school. I don’t want “news”-knowledge either. I have no particular wish to know about stuff going on in the world right now. Sure, I’ll inevitably pick up on some stories here and there, but it won’t be knowledge I’ll focus on. It is too flightily, isn’t it?

I reckon some topics will be quite big, and of course my intention is not to become an expert in them. I just want to know the basics, excite myself, be able to explain a bit about it, gain some perspective, use it in crosswords, Trivial Pursuit, quizzes, etc. My sources of wisdom can also be anything – e.g. the library, books, the Internet, magasins, documentaries, TV in general. I’m probably also going to take a few notes to the topics to connect things in my head.

I imagine that each topic will take about two weeks to a month to research to a satisfying extend, an hour or two every other day. It all depends how interesting I find it.

Actually, the idea originates in the Ricky Gervais radio show where they talk mostly drivel and amusing stories but also about many interesting topics. One topic which I found particularly fascinating was evolution. How we, the world, scientifically got to the point where we are now. I have picked this to be my first topic to explore.

For now however I’m going to postpone the take-off of this plan. Just till I get settled in Aalborg and school again.