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sorry for the double post, but i think it should be posted. i didn't write this, but it does pertain to me and generally is a good guide to studying anything:
once you start, allow yourself to be taken down the rabbit hole. I was 12 when i first read The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Completely changed my life that book, and to this day Malcolm X is one of my personal heroes. Another thing that book did was start me on my personal quest for knowledge--in it, Malcolm taught me two things:
1. Never skip over a word. Read with a dictionary next to you, and always look everything up. I did that for a decade, until I stopped finding words I didn't know.
2. Follow the trail. He listed a bunch of books that he read, so I went and checked them all out. Some I liked, some I didn't, but each one led me to other books, some I liked, some I didn't, etc, etc, on and on, until the nest thing I knew I was immersed in learning and knowledge. If you let yourself, once you start down that path, you can keep going forever. Almost all knowledge is intertwined if you follow the links.
some good advice from Tmax, blogger extraordinaire. i generally do the same thing and the recommendation to read Malcolm (although i didn't when i was 12) is a good one. although it doesn't' have much to do with psych the book IS excellent to read. for whatever ideological disagreements you may have, the young black power/Muslim leader sect of America is extremely well read and make for intelligent writing/reading.
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