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Episode: 2389
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Title: HPR2389: Thoughts on Lifetime Learning
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2389/hpr2389.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 02:08:40
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This is HPR episode 2,389 entitled Thoughts on Lifetime Learning.
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It is posted by me and is about 9 minutes long and carrying a clean flag.
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The summary is in this episode, I talk about my experiences in learning to be a good learner.
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Hello hacker public radio fans, this is BeeEasy once again.
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Coming in doing something a little bit different this time.
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I want to talk to a subject that is very important to me and that is Lifetime Learning.
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I'm not an expert on it, I'm just giving my experience.
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So I feel like I've learned from a lot of important people in my life who are older
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that the more they learn throughout their life, the more their cognitive ability is in their
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old age. I know that there are studies that back that up, I'm not going to present those right now
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because I'm lazy and I don't feel like it. But I did want to talk about some of the things
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that I've learned in my pursuit of Lifetime Learning. I've never claimed to know a lot about a lot of
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things but I know enough about the things that I try to learn about to get me started.
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That's kind of the biggest thing that I've learned over time and that I've been taught.
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I believe it has its roots in East Asian philosophy but that is if you understand the basics
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of any topic and you understand the essence behind it and the driving forces behind it
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and you practice those and you get good at those then you can often punch above your weight in that
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topic and when I say punch above your weight I mean to the outside it will look like you know a lot
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more than you do because you understand the basics and the essence of that topic very well.
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I'll give an example. I have a martial arts instructor who talks about this is an idea and
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it's also been in the way of the samurai, that book and a whole bunch of other places
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this philosophy and I've seen it in many of his students when they go and they go out and do
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national and international tournaments some of the people who have very little experience
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can even though they're doing very basic activities and basic movements they outperform people who
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have been doing that a lot longer who might know a lot more moves but they can't execute any of those
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moves as well as his students who really just understand the basics and understand the history
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and the essence of what those movements are supposed to be so they might only have four movements
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but they execute them very well what way better than the people who have you know 25 movements
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that they know how to perform. The same is true in technology in my opinion
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I am by no means a software engineer I call myself a software get it done because I don't
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I haven't really been formally trained on anything well very little formal training I won't say
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none but I end up making things work and I'm making when I have code reviews from external people
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they talk about how well it's written and how it looks like you know a very experienced person wrote
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it but that's not me but what I do what I lack in knowledge about how to write a lot of different
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types of code is that I learned how to use you know good code styling practices for whatever
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language that I'm writing in I learn how to use if I'm doing object-oriented programming I use
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good practices in that in that setting or good functional programming practices and you know I
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understand I take the time to learn those things instead of trying to learn everything about
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the language and learn how to do everything I understand I try to learn you know like for instance
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for Python I learned how to do things in a Pythonic way if I'm doing C which I won't say never
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but almost never do I look at good examples of what people call good C code and I follow that
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example or C sharp or whatever the case may be and the same thing goes with with activities and
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sports and you know whatever you choose to do if you understand the basics and understand
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the essence behind it and practice that it will bring you very far one other example is I don't
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know how many people in the hacker public radio audience are dancers but I have done a couple
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different styles of dance and I am by no means once again an expert in any of this stuff
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but if that's the one thing that dancers teach a lot is you know you don't need to know all the dance
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moves but if you know the basics and you can perform them really well then when you go out and dance
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you will impress people not because of your knowledge of a whole bunch of different things but
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because you do the things that you do know how to do well and so that's one other thing that
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what I was talking about and it's the last my last point is in the pursuit of lifetime learning
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you should be getting better at learning so the the practice of learning you should be getting
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better out as you get older I see how for instance my dad learns and you know he's been around a lot
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low into me and he learns things a lot quicker and a lot of situations at least the basics and
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the understanding of what it is all about because of this philosophy and he also doesn't get
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frustrated by looking at other people who are at a ability that's above his and worrying about
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what they're doing it's something I grew up with as a saying worry about yourself so instead of
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looking around and saying well this person that is also in this class that I'm learning
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is way better than me and getting yourself down about it you know don't worry about them
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focusing yourself in your own learning and making improvements to yourself and that's the the
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goal in my opinion of life is to always be improving and being better than you were the day before
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whether that be more ethical than the day before a harder worker a better parent a better spouse
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no no one's perfect and you should not be frustrated by your imperfection but you should
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understand it and you should think about if you can do something to make yourself better and by all
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means you know none of us are perfect in that endeavor I can tell you from first-hand experience
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that I'll get it right all the time and I slip back and do things or you know I'm not always
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pursuing getting better all the time but but when I do I feel like my life is more fulfilled when
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I know that you know I talk when my kids something better and they are responding to me better than
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the day before that makes me feel good and when I learn a new activity and I did it today better
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than I did yesterday or ran one a mile faster than I did the week before that is a really great
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feeling and it's something that I would try to reproduce all this time anyway sorry if this is
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a little heavy and a little out there and not a little technical but it's something that was on my
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mind and it was something that I thought you know it would be great to get other people's opinion on
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and we're a little low in the queue so here's my little contribution for this time of year
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so with that I'll conclude but thanks again and I invite everyone who listens to Hacker Public
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Radio to contribute it's really easy and there's lots of episodes in the Hacker Public Radio
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archive about how to do it and there's also some good resources on the website so please
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contribute respond to any of the cast that either I've made or any of the other contributors have
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