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Stefan_Schubert comments on What attracts people to learning things that they consider neither interesting nor important? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Stefan_Schubert 14 March 2014 10:06:16PM 7 points [-]

Are they consciously aware that they find what they're learning neither interesting or important? I think I've met quite a few people who studied things because they believed themselves to be interested in them even though you could infer from their behaviour that actually they weren't. We often fail to know our own preferences.