People learn throughout their lives.
Graduating from college doesn't mean your learning is over.
The most important thing at the starting point of lifelong learning is your mindset toward learning.
Even when running a 100m race, when we stand at the starting line, we calm our pounding hearts and calm our minds.
The same goes for studying.
You need to decide what kind of attitude and mindset you should have.

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The joy and pleasure in the 'non-returning pleasure' that Confucius thought of is 'a heart that arises spontaneously'.
No matter how difficult or challenging a task may be, there is joy and happiness hidden within it.
If you approach things with a "heart of enjoyment," difficult studies, burdensome collaborations, and the sadness of not being recognized will all melt away like snow and be easily resolved.

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Some people say that we have to experience things to learn about many things in life, such as how to get along with friends, how to communicate well with teachers or parents, and how to handle class duties well.
If you don't experience it yourself, you'll say that what you read in a book is just a piece of paper.
But actually, if you open the book, you can see that that is not the case.
Many people will regret it, thinking, "Wow, this was in the book? I wish I had read it sooner..."
This is why I stimulate 'intellectual deficiency'.

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Confucius's words, "If only I could realize the truth, I would be willing to give up my body," are similar to Einstein's life.
Einstein devoted his later years to studying the formulas of the universe.
He is a person who actually lived the life of Confucius's words, 'If you awaken to the Way in the morning and die in the evening, you will be happy.'

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In an age when people loved to worship great and outstanding people as gods, Confucius often heard people say this.
When you think of Mozart, many people probably have similar thoughts.
When talking about his piano skills, most people ask, “How can we compare him to him?
He was a genius.
“I’ve been writing songs since I was five years old,” he would say.
If you say that Beethoven was a great musician, someone will surely answer like this.
“He was a genius.
“It’s different from us.”
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When studying, we need help from teachers, but we must also learn 'Geoilbansam' on our own.
How can I do this? When the teacher tells me something, I try to think of another piece of knowledge related to it.
As you organize your notes of wrong answers, think carefully about why you got that question wrong and avoid making the same mistake the next time you encounter the same type of question.
As you expand your chain of thought and develop your ability to reason, induce, and organize, your learning efficiency will naturally increase.

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Confucius tells us not to think too hard about being a teacher.
If you can do 'ongoijishin', you can teach someone even if you don't have a teaching license.
After school, go home and tell your parents about what you learned that day.
If you can express that content accurately and in an understandable way, then you have already completely mastered that knowledge.
Another good idea is to form a group with your classmates and study together regularly.

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There is a term in psychology called 'delayed gratification'.
One of the areas of self-control refers to the ability to voluntarily suppress and control immediate pleasure, reward, or desires in order to achieve greater results, while enduring the resulting frustration.
There are also research results that show that the stronger this ability is in a person, the more likely he or she is to achieve great things.

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Some people write down passages that impressed them while reading a book in a separate notebook, while others like to underline them with colorful pens.
However, there are many people who do not remember the content of the sentence they wrote with a pen.
You're just pretending to be enthusiastic on the outside.
Why can't I remember? Because I don't think.

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Many of the problems we face today are essentially no different from those faced by Confucius two thousand years ago.
Think about it.
Even among Confucius's disciples at the time, there must have been those who did not understand his teachings, considered them too difficult, considered them useless knowledge, or complained that they could never follow them.
There may even have been people who raised objections without even learning.
Every time that happened, Confucius said to them,
He advised me to 'think a lot and learn a lot.'

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