Humans are most creative when they are just sitting there blankly.
That doesn't mean I have no thoughts.
Rather, it's the opposite.
When you are in a daze, your thoughts fly around very freely.
Sometimes I just sit there blankly and think, 'Why am I thinking this?'
And then we've all probably had the experience of going back and tracing where that thought started.
When you find your train of thought, you will be amazed at the range of thoughts that have flown through you in that short period of time.

Today, with the availability of computers, even ordinary people can think like geniuses.
This means that the ability to think on the fly, which God had granted only to some geniuses, is now available to ordinary people as well.
It's because of the 'rat'.
That's the computer's 'mouse'.
For the first time in history, humans have a tool that can make their thoughts fly.
When you look at your computer screen and click on something that interests you, your thoughts immediately fly elsewhere.
This is a place that has nothing to do with the previous context.
This is a huge revolution.

- '04.
Anyone can be a genius, because of the rats!'

Everyone experiences intellectual shock at least once while growing up.
This is when you think, 'Ah, I want to write and speak like that person too!'
The thirst for knowledge is also a kind of vanity.
I just want to show off for once.
People grow when they want to show off to others.
When we are young, we try to show off to our close friends, and as we get older, we try to show off to the public.
And Anna, adults and men always want to look good in front of women.
The core of Hegel's 'struggle for recognition' is the psychological 'motivation' of wanting to show off.

Kim Yong-ok was the first person to use the subject 'I' in an academic text.
Until then, there had been no case of using the subject 'I' in humanities and social science texts.
As far as I remember, Kim Yong-ok is the first.
It was the same abroad.
After natural science was considered the epitome of learning, the subject of knowledge, ‘I,’ disappeared from academic writing.
This is because the core of natural scientific knowledge is ‘objectivity that excludes the subject.’
- '05.
From Kim Yong-ok's Crosstext and Lee Eo-ryeong's Hypertext

As the direction of study that had been forced upon us in the Korean context was lost, we began to think about the content and methodology of independent learning.
It was also a belated question of why one should study.
I was particularly interested in the discussion on the conceptual difference between 'society Gesellschaft' and 'culture Kultur'.
In the end, I decided to focus my studies on ‘cultural psychology.’
I started studying anew.
I worked really hard.
“What is your theory?” asked my advisor, whom I had finally met after months of waiting after requesting an interview.
You didn't even read the thesis proposal I laid out.
'My theory?' Until then, I had never thought about my own theory, nor had I ever thought of creating one.
But my advisor is asking me, who has just settled in Germany, what my theory is.
He said there wasn't any.
He said he came to learn your theory.
Then he tells me to get out.
How can a student who wants to write a master's or doctoral thesis not have his or her own thoughts?
He said that summarizing other people's theories is not worth even half a penny.
He told me to come back and think about the direction of the theory I wanted to present.
The question was whether I was studying with a subjective perspective.
It was also a question of whether there was an academic awareness of the problem.
The point is that if you have a clear subjective viewpoint, you won't be imitating other people's theories.
I had to change the way I studied.
As I have done so far, it was impossible to construct my own theory by simply understanding and memorizing the theories of the masters.
- '06.
The difference between notes and cards is huge.

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