The meaning of study is, through your effort and with the help of the authors, you can understand those you did not understand. You acquired a new skill and a new viewpoint to the world.
The joy of it, is, you are now able to see the world in a different way. And found that how stupid you were.
The different way is not simply as "oh, people will think in this way." coz some people's mind sucks, as many "artists" think they gave something new angle. It means, the same things can be view in a profound way, not only a new view point but also a new extension, that completely changed the way you think, not in analogically, but in logically.
A trivial example is special relativity.
Ok, let me pause a while and talk about electromagnetism. Actually it is also a profound "different way".
Before maxwell unified the electricity and magnetism. People think they are different thing. An example is, in dry weather, your hair sticks with the climb and the compass always point to the north are totally unrelated by their behavior. However, maxwell unified these 2 phenomenons. And, this is important, the unification predict a new thing. The light! Which is just an oscillation of charge. Awesome!!
The point I want to deliver in here is, a true different point of view is not just give you a new angle, usually by sticking 2 things which has common feature or characteristics, and that is easy, say, I can combine a knife with a fork at 2 ends. But that does not give you an extension. You don't know what can you do more that that by the combination! The important thing in here is application, predictive or guidance by the "different view".
You may say my definition is too high that put almost everything into trash. Well, I can only say, "why rubbish don't go to trash?"
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