Gerald Hüther, a wellknown German neuroscientist, postulated: The joy of learning is the expression of the joy of life. I put it to a question and ask kindly for your opinion.
Peter
Yes, the joy of learning is the consequence of wish for better life. Joy of life may be expressed by various ways, not only learning.
I would say that the joy of learning is the expression of joy of living better off.
Yes, the joy of learning is the consequence of wish for better life. Joy of life may be expressed by various ways, not only learning.
Dear Peter,
No doubts, Gerald Huther was right. I would add that learning is never boring. Other things can be. Besides the joy of learning in extraordinay way or practicing/learnig unusual things can expand the joy of life. Recently while leisure I'm practicing Japanese courtesy and basic words in this nice language using the lessons on youtube. Results ? A lot of the fun and enjoyment!
I think that the joy of learning equals the joy of life for only some of the population. I know that I find enjoyment in learning new things. To me it is like a candy treat when I discover a new fact or link cause and effect. This does enlighten my life. But, I know people who believe that a person only needs to learn enough to keep them safe and comfortable, all else being a burden, a cluttering of the mind.
I somewhat disagree with Gerald Hüther on our learning being linked to our emotions. Yes, certain memories have been linked to emotional events in a person's life, but most learning is associated with the everyday mundane. Trauma, elation, fright, jealousy, etc. can reinforce a memory or learning experience, but often they can have the opposite effect.
Is the joy of learning the expression of the joy of life?
Agreed joy of learning is the expression of the joy of life for some people. However, also finding joy of applying / practicing after learning is the expression of a more fruitful life.
Is the joy of learning the expression of the joy of life?
No, it is not universal and does not apply to everybody.
Joie de vivre" (or the "joy of living") is an expression for a rare quality that simply shines forth in some people, an ability to love life to its fullest and to reflect this in both personality and deed. Unfortunately, for many of us the hustle and bustle of everyday life can wear us down to a pile of complaints so that all we see is the less joyful side of things, and we sidestep joie de vivre under piles of duty, worries, and the occasional catastrophe.(http://m.wikihow.com/Capture-Joie-De-Vivre).
Dear Prof Peter,
It may be and may be not. In the creation context, the joy of learning can be created by the actors. Despite their life is on the opposite condition, the people can create the joy of learning, even in their life. For example, a prisoner may create the joy of his/her learning around the prison condition. As it was presented by Viktor Frankl in his popular book "Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager." It is like a idiom that life is a choice. On the other side, the joy of learning may be the expression of the joy of life in term of the interrelation between both learning and life. In systemic concept, learning is one of the life parts.
Dear Peter !
I answer Y E S, with great Joy !
Yes, it is a pleasurable emotion to learn, so much so, that my personal motus is that everyday is offered for learning, and any day that goes by without new information, would be a wasted day...
Those of us who teach find the best of payment wages in the joyful bright eyes of our students, whenever they learn new concepts. We can see the pleasure in their eyes, for certain.
"When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process. It is that kind of person who can create a better and brighter world for everyone"
~ Marva Collins
Dear Peter,
I will opine that, generally (depending on how and to what extreme you are defining "joy of life") then the answer to your question is "a qualified yes."
Dr. Hüther is entirely correct in his conclusions that involvement of emotion is absolutely essential to learning, AND that learning provides an intense emotional reward (endorphin release). He is correct when he avers the so-called "aha! experience" (when someone finally "sees" the answer to a very difficult problem or puzzle) as being inextricably intertwined in the emotional centers of the brain, and the emotional reward is not only one of the greatest "joys" of life, but is often even felt as intense physical pleasure and emotional-well-being (tantamount to the intensity of feeling one might receive from an injection of opiates or a snort-of-cocaine ... that is, the intense release of endorphins the brain orchestrates, as a "reward," whenever a significant new "interconnected network" of neurons ( a learning event) is made in the brain ... I will go-out-on-a-limb and offer my opinion beyond Dr. Hüther's ideas, and say that such interconnectedness of learning-and-emotion, and the concomitant endorphin reward, harkens-back to the primitive-brain in the early days of hominins' evolution, and must be related to the intense emotional involvement necessary for our primitive ancestors to quickly think-up the best strategy to escape the attack of a predator ... not-to-forget, being more prepared, from what was so deeply-learned in such a stressful/emotional situation, how to strategize to avoid such perilous situations in the future). If you have ever experienced a "near death" attack, you will doubtlessly remember the intense "adrenaline rush" that allowed your body to shift into physical hyper-drive (superman) mode, but also the intensity of the pleasure, afterward (the so-called "endorphin high"), at having escaped death ... but even-more-so the lasting "satisfaction" (joy) of realizing that you NOW had the knowledge (that you had LEARNED) that you could utilize in any similar future situation-of-danger, which would keep you safe-from-harm. Therein, I believe, perhaps as far back in evolution as the primitive mammalian brain, lies the origin, and inextricable interconnectedness, of emotion and learning. Many people (thrill-seekers, for example, base-jumpers come-to-mind most vividly, for me, as I have a fear-of-heights) become strongly "addicted' to these natural-highs, the adrenaline-rushes and endorphin-highs, just-as-strongly as addicts who inject opiates, but scientists and philosophers (like us) tend to get addicted to the "mellow afterglow," that is, the feeling of satisfaction (joy) from having learned ... and, we can learn to trigger more-rapid learning by manipulating the emotional centers of the brain (for example, if you cannot work-yourself-up to the required level of emotional involvement and take-advantage-of the body/brain's natural pharmacopeia, many use drugs such as caffeine or amphetamines as a substitute, for example, to "cram-for-an-exam").
Dr. Hüther's ideas are validated by the latest neuroscience research (brain scans that map specific activities to specific centers of the brain) that show that ALL decisions made by humans must necessarily involve (and actually originate within) the emotional centers of the brain. While it is unclear whether this can be extended to say all learning must originate in the emotional centers, it is clear that all learning is experienced emotionally, so the emotion centers are always involved in-some-manner.
Please refer to the comments on my RG question "In your daily decisions, do you rely more on emotion or logic?" ... here:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/In_your_daily_decisions_do_you_rely_more_on_logic_or_emotion
There is also a link provided to a brief article in the header of that question that talks about the latest brain research which established the link between the emotions, decision-making and learning, which tend to validate Dr. Hüther's ideas so strongly, and tend to make the answer to your question, mostly, "yes."
Best regards,
Bob
YES. Otherwise there would not be any advances in technology, comfort, etc. The opposite direction will end up in ignorance.
“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” - Voltaire
I finish it here with a quote from Taylor Caldwell: Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Dear Maria,
Of course, learning is joy (outside of normal nerving school).
@ Mahmoud Omid wrote: "The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. - Voltaire"
Dear Mahmoud,
I have always loved that quotation of Voltaire's, but think it is usually poorly-translated (the words are translated from the French literally enough, but with loss of the essential meaning), and would better be translated as:
"The more I read, the more I learn, and the more I doubt that I know anything with certainty (or, absolutely)."
Best regards,
Bob
Dear Peter,
I noticed that this seemingly simple question evoked many serious observations or scientific remarks. My first thought, was what is prompting scientists to share such essential remarks at 9:44 PM? But.. this is only local time. Others have the middle of the days !
I believe the most of people does not like learning things on a deep level, because there is the hard work, but they have a great joy of life. In opposite case, we would not have so much contradictions and conflicts in our life.
Dear Peter:
Yes. Although I have not studied the ideas of Gerald Hüther, I have adopted from other approaches the hypothesis that every organism has an intrinsic need for variety and stimulation in order to maintain an optimal level of activation. Novelty and challenge in life --of which learning is, at least in part, a manifestation-- are then basic motivational goals, whose satisfaction produces pleasure naturally.
Dear Peter, I hate to be brief and/or simplistic but I think there is no joy in learning if there is no joy in "doing". Thinking is "doing", building bridges of friendship with fellow learners and doers, contemplating sunset is also a "doing", despite the ferocious way in which philosophy defends "la vita contemplativa" vs. "la vita attiiva". For me, contemplation is preparation for a "doing", learning is preparation for a "doing", even sleeping is preparation for a "doing" To abandon oneself to feelings and emotions is preparation for a "doing". Most things we relate to inactivity are part of the complex process of life because life is a constant "mano a mano" between lessons and actions. Preparation is one of the most important "doings", it is the instance where the spark of the "doing" illuminates what was once the unmapped void to turn it into the promise of a landscape of events which will be our landscape and our events. I feel like doing 24 hours a day because I think, dream, rest, prepare and do. We live in perpetual doing mode, whether we embrace trivial or heroic tasks. I'm an optimist, a militant optimist, Often, triviality is fun, and we must welcome fun.
Besides, the so-called brainwork is also "work", tough work.
Best regards, Lilliana
The joy of life is freedom and then joy is have to eat, to sleep; to work.
Learning is a food nothing more than that. The freedom is the reason that learning becomes critical so to overcome existential questions.
The joy of learning is connected with the growth of mind.
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live." — Mortimer Adler
Joy...is learning necessarily joyful?
I think we need to be more critical and cynical about it. To start with, we need to distinguish a learning as part of human nature (as per Aristotle's Metaphysics, "All wo(men) by nature desire to know") from a learning in formal education system.
There is a huge problem in the latter, and it is here that most of us in RG work.
Many children and young women/men in the world DO NOT enjoy learning in many formal education settings, where they are told what it is to be learner and what is learning.
Schooling is marred with performative assessments; states have monopolies of testing systems; they are red-eyed in the quest of producing (they say) ideal/productive citizens (a Functionalist principle); they use formal learning for social engineering; boredom is rampant in classrooms and classroom are very often streamed and stratified with scores (Just see here in RG, how many colleagues in edu are interested in assessing this and assessing that).
To top it all, the system imposes and inculcates a 'naive' version of learning: "You will be happy when you truly learn." Irony, huh?
I've found a related paper by Gerald Hüther mentioned in the question. It is entitled "The Neurobiological Preconditions for the Development of Curiosity and Creativity" (http://www.gerald-huether.de/pdf/neurobiological_preconditions.pdf) Below is the quote from one of its sections, "Where the joy to learn and create comes from":
Children bring with them at birth not only the capability to constantly learn, but also the joy of always discovering the new. This is owing to the circumstance that the infant brain is dependent on the broadest possible spectrum of different stimuli for the formation of sufficiently complex connectivity patterns. The most suitable stimuli for the connectivities to be established and stabilized in the brain are those which the child develops on its own. This quest for the new initiated by the child has a decisive advantage over all stimuli work- ing on the child from outside: on the basis of the skills and capabilities already learned and lodged in its brain, when the child determines for itself what is new and interesting, the learning experiences made under these conditions can be connected especially well with the already existing knowledge, and therefore the already existing connectivity pattern can be advantageously expanded and augmented. Whenever a child and also an adult are occupied with looking for something, a certain disquiet rules in its brain, an agitation and ten- sion. It is suddenly resolved by the experience of success. It is always at that point, when order arises from confusion or calm from agitation, that a feeling of comfort and satisfaction sets in. The greater the initial arousal and irritation is, the greater the joy, when everything now “fits“. One then has even more desire to go looking again. Under these conditions a group of nerve cells is always excited and releases certain messenger substances at the ends of their long processes, which are also released when addicts take cocaine or heroin. That is an indication of how great this feeling of pleasure can become, when one discovers something, when one has “grasped“ something. Since for children in a world that is still strange for them there is so much that is new to be discovered and ordered in their treasury of experience, their joy for learning is normally only interrupted by the phases of exhaustion, which always occur and must occur, in order that everything that has been learned and dis- covered in the waking phase, can be processed, stabilized and integrated with the existing inner patterns in the brain in REM sleep.
@ Abdul Aziz Jaafar said: "...I use my Rasberry Pi 2 model B "
Dear Abdul,
Isn't the Pi such a fabulous little wonder (I had been working with Arduinos, before, but got a Raspberry, recently, and, like you, I am very pleased with its capabilities).
I got a clear acrylic case to mount mine within ... which transforms it into a very interesting "see-thru" work-of-art. I am betting if you put yours in such a case, such a novelty might even attract more students to pay attention (especially those two art majors sitting in the back loathing having to sit through another lecture on thermofluids)!
Best regards,
Bob
Joy is you at the deepest level, and your joy is one with the infinite timeless joy of this unbound universe."Find a place inside where there is joy will burn out the pain. ''If you want joy for a life time.... Learn to love what you do''. You cannot be anything if you want to be everything'' joyful is a positive cash flow.
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
~ Taylor Caldwell
The joy of education and lifelong learning - Life is a test, and life is also a school.
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/james-d-gordon-iii_the-joy-of-education-and-lifelong-learning/
Joy of learning can be expression of the joy of life if it leads to the joy of humanity in general.How positive traits and values are strengthened in people in order to construct positive values in the society which encourage caring, kindness, tolerance and respect to each other no matter what race or religion we have.
"Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy."
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"The joy of life is to love."
----- Unknown
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
Please, see the importance of "Joy of Learning":
"Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned."
---- Taylor Caldwell
The joy of learning is not only the expression of the joy of life, also develop the positive attitude towards life and consequently increases the joy of life.
Dear Peter Eyerer,
The emotion of joy is of great social importance. Parents every day dealing with a child, the joy of seeing it for yourself and show it, and it's a constant counter-expression of joy increases the likelihood of forming a mutual emotional attachment. In infancy and early childhood sense of emotional attachment it is extremely important for the normal development of the child, as it provides a sense of security. If a child knows that his mother is always there, that it at any moment to come to his aid, he gains a sense of confidence, which is so necessary for the development of cognitive research activity.
The emotion of joy is positive not only for the formation of mutual affection between parents and the baby, but also affects the development of social relations adult. If communication with some person you happy, then you will probably trust this person to rely on it. Formation of affection and mutual trust between human beings is an extremely important function of emotions joy.
The joy of learning - the most wonderful feeling in the world.
Regards, Shafagat
Sometimes the joy is our expression for satisfaction, and then expression of the joy of life. However, in my opinion this is not the always case, since we use the joy to ignore, deny, or forget some painful moments!
"Joy is man's passage from a less to a greater perfection." --Spinoza
sometimes people don't know the value of knowledge, then learning can not be joyful for them. I believe ignorance turn joy of learning to a misery.
Therefore, the answer to this question depends on people's attitude.
Most of us enjoy Learning. Learning gives self-satisfaction to us when transferring knowledge to students.
This is like Abhishek put it. The real joy is found in those ready to serve other in a selfless manner.
Learning, performed as a game, in an interactive mode, is always successful and seems accessible even if the task is a hard one. In this situation, learning is joy. Learning opens new horizons and leads to the ability to see how meaningful and colorful are the paths of a life; so, you will better integrate in the surrounding environment and will give you, somehow, the possibility to relieve or mitigate the stress peaks. And more than everything, learning (as well as joy) is neurochemistry ... and chemistry is the essence of life.
Dear Peter,
I think each man delights simple joys of life. This is a basic experience of living beings. A little trouble is that many cannot either truly appreciate or express this enjoyment. Here you are a really mastery expression of this elementary joyfulness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJcQYVtZMo
Please, look at the people there. One should listen to this piece of music every day.
As to the joy of learning, this is not characteristic for everybody. Regarding my students and many colleagues, it is difficult to recognise this joy. I would like to experience similar enjoyment of learning as that of Beethoven music.
Yes, please see the following links and picture
http://meritstudents.com/JolOnline/
http://www.thejoyoflearning.com/home.html
Dear All,
I would like to ask you whether what people feel when learning is rather a mixture of uncertain feelings of desire, hope, respect and joy than pure joy?
The joy of learning has always been my way of life. I have never-ending questions. Is there any other way of life?? I have no choice but to learn - and to enjoy it.
This article has useful statistics. It discusses learning not to gain a certificate, but because you enjoy it.
Leaning should be fun not a chore, but almost all countries take joy out of learning.
https://www.ml.com/articles/the-joy-of-learning-for-free.html#experience=static
Dear Dr Eyerer,
Agree !!! yep not countries but the system of education - Targets certificates/ degrees/end product $$$ .
Joy is lost because it molds you to follow stipulations and sadly society dictates.
Personally ,i am adventurous and NOT LEARNING SCARES the *"#)%* out of me ...
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade."
- Simone Weil
@Abdul Aziz Jaafar said: "you can see how happy I am..full of joy"
Dear Abdul,
Yes, the joy you experience from learning new things, especially new technology that will assist students to learn (and also introduce them to the JOY of learning) beams abundantly from your smiling face (in the new profile photo), and also comes-through clearly in your enthusiastic words. I wish you (and all) a very long life celebrating the joy-of-learning, and helping others to find joy in their quests for learning.
Fondest wishes for joy,
Bob
Dear Peter
I would say otherwise, but the fund would be the same as the content of the response of our colleague Ljubomir.
Regards!
I think there is joy in learning when you derive pleasure in it
Dear Marcel, all learning needs effort. I guess, then, that enjoying effort means we enjoy stress. It means fighting against immobility, sameness, boredom. That is why we talk about "growing pains". All changes of state cause some kind of disturbance. That is why so many people refuse to learn. Too much stress. Either you stay still or you can't stop running. So much for inertia... we must never forget about inertia, Marcel!
Learning is exciting sometimes, but not always. You could face bitter learning experiences in your life time. Joyful life is always desiring- you may not get all the time.
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
~ Albert Einstein
Joy in learning is certainly enjoying life as learning means trying to know unknown facets of life.
Joyful learning, as Yamashiro describes it, starts with passion, purpose, and play. Components include building strong positive relationships; developing a growth mindset; connecting learning with social action in the community.
Joyful learning is based on community, engagement, interest, creativity, appreciation, and fun. A desire to learn is a fruitful asset that will fuel us throughout our life. Without this unquenchable desire to grow our understanding of ourselves and the world around us, we stagnate.
http://www.joyfullearningnetwork.com
Joy of learning has primary interest is in learning for yourself instead of for a degree, you can increase your proficiency in subjects as diverse as the history of the cosmos.
There are so many glowing reasons to feel the joy of life and to be happy; Learning can be one of them.
I certainly enjoy learning and learning has been a part of my life. When my students ask my advice on going for a Ph.D and an academic career, I tell them to do so only if you enjoy learning. When we have intrinsic motivation and willingly engage in an activity purely for the personal satisfaction it brings joy in learning and life.
The attached article is very interesting. Here is a few selected lines:
Why do people learn? I don't mean inside school—I mean learning as a part of life. Surely a large part of our learning is necessary for survival and a basic quality of life.
But there is another, entirely different, reason to learn. Learning gives us pleasure. This kind of learning is often (but not always) motivated from within, and no outside forces or coercions are needed. We also don't mind the possible difficulties in this learning. We often expect the challenges we encounter; we tend to see them as a natural part of the learning process, so we are far more open to taking risks. Some love to learn about cars, others love to learn about history, and some find great joy in learning how to dance.
According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990), such learning is an example of flow, which he defines as
the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it at even great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it. (p. 4)
If we want students to experience more flow in school—if we want them to see school and learning as joyful—we need to rethink how and what we teach. No longer can schooling be primarily about creating workers and test takers, but rather about nurturing human beings (Wolk, 2007). By helping students find the pleasure in learning, we can make that learning infinitely more successful.
Please read the test of this interesting article at
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept08/vol66/num01/Joy-in-School.aspx
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept08/vol66/num01/Joy-in-School.aspx
Dear Peter
So true....Life is a kind of learning procedure from the beginning. the more you learn the more you get old!!! It's happening to me right now...!
If we teach the way we learn, it would be very exciting, interesting, and helpful. Phil Collins quote is relevant then: “In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
The Nabokov's phrase comes to mind: "'I esteem my colleagues as I do my own self, I esteem them for two things: because they are able to find perfect felicity in specialized knowledge and because they are not apt to commit physical murder" (Bend Sinister).
The joy of learning flows from the joy of life. It is an expression of the joy of life. However, the joy of life is a personal concept that must be defined by each individual. One may determine the joy of life to be the smell of a flower or the touch of silk. One may find joy in a book and and another may not appreciate reading as the joy of life.
The joy of learning flows from the joy of life. It is an expression of the joy of life. However, the joy of life is a personal concept that must be defined by each individual. One may determine the joy of life to be the smell of a flower or the touch of silk. One may find joy in a book and and another may not appreciate reading as the joy of life.
Yes is true..Learning brings joy in one's life. Knowledge makes you wise and powerfull, define interests in ones life, makes it possible toface yourself, to give questions that arise during the life.
It depends about the subject the person is learning and the reward after the study.
Walter
Joy...is learning necessarily joyful?
I think we need to be more critical and cynical about it. To start with, we need to distinguish a learning as part of human nature (as per Aristotle's Metaphysics, "All wo(men) by nature desire to know") from a learning in formal education system.
There is a huge problem in the latter, and it is here that most of us in RG work.
Many children and young women/men in the world DO NOT enjoy learning in many formal education settings, where they are told what it is to be learner and what is learning.
Schooling is marred with performative assessments; states have monopolies of testing systems; they are red-eyed in the quest of producing (they say) ideal/productive citizens (a Functionalist principle); they use formal learning for social engineering; boredom is rampant in classrooms and classroom are very often streamed and stratified with scores (Just see here in RG, how many colleagues in edu are interested in assessing this and assessing that).
To top it all, the system imposes and inculcates a 'naive' version of learning: "You will be happy when you truly learn." Irony, huh?
Is the joy of learning the expression of the joy of life? - ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_the_joy_of_learning_the_expression_of_the_joy_of_life/3 [accessed Mar 4, 2016].
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
"What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them; and advice, road maps, guidebooks, to make it easier for them to get where they want to go (not where we think they ought to go), and to find out what they want to find out."
—John Holt, Teach Your Own
Dear Colleagues,
thank you for all your valuable comments!
Th question is the conclusion of the new book of Gerald Hüther. Here are his 7 theses leading to the conclusion (Point 8). These are the content of the book.
"1. The evolution of life is a progressive expansion of the learning ability of living systems
2. Learning is a self-organizing process for the repetition of consistency
3. Learning about the formation of unstable relationship patterns leads to the formation of stable relationship structures
4. Living beings learn only what is significant for their lives.
5. The learning experience is based on previous experiences.
6. No living being can learn something without stimulation by another. What one has learned then stimulates others in return.
7. Only people can learn how to use the learning of others to pursue their own aims and objectives.
8. Conclusion: The joy of learning is the expression of the joy of life!" G. Hüther
Translation from German to English by Andrea Janssen ;
Peter
... the joy of interest an eagerness of life is for me associated with the joy of life and to experience yourself in more and new Situations. The fact that you learn by this a lot, Comes second to me in the followup as a good and necessary companion.
I am curious as to what he means by No. 6 "stimulation by another." There are many learning situations in life where we can learn without any prior stimulation by another. If you reach out and grab a hot pan you have learned something and hopefully carry that knowledge forward. If I cut open a rose hip and see what is inside I have learned something, even if I had not had botany. Many of life's facts we learn on our own without outside stimulus by another.
Dear James,
thank you for your response question. I red all books of Hüther, but not yet the new one. I am in the middle of the book. After having red chapter 6 I will give an answer
Peter
Learning first comes from our within which remains & inspiring source to perform something creative for our life & the zeal inspiring us & also to motivate for performing our action inspiring us the basic truth that WORK IS WORSHIP .
With this attitude of mind with reasoning faculty come to our help for taking for our action & the strength of intuition helps us for his fragrance .
Learning for our test ,liking ,& for our development makes us to process for our successive lifeline that creates a joy within us. In this line our learning becomes a joy for us this learning becomes inspiring process for our guideline & than we make our progress for our career development .
With the earlier stage for our learning when our mind has accepted the WORK IS WORSHIP & when we receive the success for our career & for our lifeline,our joy becomes two fold .
This is my personal opinion
Dear Colleagues,
Good Day,
“I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.”
―August Strindberg
I think the art and enjoying learning is the Gift from Our God through the generations of the Human being
Dear Colleagues,
thank you for all your answers. They impress and touch me.
Thank you
Peter
Hi.
From my personal expression, the joy of life is indeed the joy of learning.
Nevertheless, I would like to quote Carl Sagan:
'Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.'
-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
Joy is deeper than happiness, it is happiness that can weather the troubles and circumstances of the moment. It is perspective and not sentiment. I can't help but to think of children, who I believe are the most inquisitive and most joyful demographic group on earth. Yes, there is a correlation between the joy of learning and the joy of living, owing in part to a beginner's mindset. Like the dawning of a new day that brings along with it new hope and many prospects. To be grateful enough and humble enough to be teacheable, either through life's trials or through an instructor, more or less guarantees joy because the desire to learn is symptomatic of a hopeful predisposition. A life that is content with the extent of its learning is most assuredly a life that has ceased to brim over with joy.
I agree absolutely with that saying. However, not everyone has the opportunity to be exposed to new learning. If they had, they would agree too.
To put it another way, if one is not exposed to new learning and feel the joy that comes out of it, life is dull.
I believe so. If you have a hobby that you enjoy, that is a way of expressing yourself and it brings a sense of peace, happiness, and self awareness. It is filled with energy and joy. I watched an international folk dance ensemble the other night and it made me want to dance again because of the way it makes me feel. Watching it only does so much but doing it, expressing myself, and feeling those raw emotions in action is so vivacious. I feel the same way about drawing and painting.
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