It seems my entire life is centered on Supermemo. In making any decision about my life--my choice of job, my choice of transportation means, my choice of social activities--almost invariably I begin with the question, "How will this affect my ability to do repetitions and to add new items?" Clearly I have an obsession with learning and with Supermemo. My concern, and the subject of my post, is over whether or not this obsession is a healthy one.
In the first six months of using Supermemo, my focus was strictly on the goal of inputting my total present knowledge (at risk of being forgotten). From a certain perspective, particularly after completing four successful years of college, I am saddened to think I reached that once "monstrous" goal in the space of only six months. Now, after only a year and a half, my collection contains 15,000 memorized items, and my level of knowledge has increased 300%! (That means I feel like I have gone to college three times!)
It is a remarkable feeling knowing precisely how much you know. Supermemo's instruction manual refers to my database of knowledge as my "collection"; I call it my "brain." My collection is so thorough, it's at least a close replica. With the invention of the thumbdrive, it is humoring to consider that I sometimes wear my brain around my neck!
To be clear, it is difficult to determine whether my present lifestyle is the result of Supermemo or whether Supermemo simply fits into a lifestyle I would have chosen for myself anyway. My uncertainty stems partly from the fact that I am a relatively young adult, and like many my age, have never really even begun to settle down into a steady lifestyle and with which I could compare my present "deteriorated" one. (I place that word in quotes because that is how an outsider would likely view it.) Without giving a complete biography of myself, suffice it to say I come from a family whose members all like to move frequently, who tend not to cling too tightly to friends, and whose interests are constantly in flux.
Clearly, Supermemo is an addiction I cannot shake. The question, again, is whether that addiction is unhealthy and whether I must learn to temper it more. The cliches we throw about would suggest not: knowledge is power and learning what life is all about, right? If the cliches are correct, then anything that helps further my learning is healthy.
Perhaps the measure of my obsession's unhealthiness is the extent to which it jeopardizes personal relationships. No, I am not married, but to be fair I have always been somehwat averse to the idea of marriage. I have friends, though my friends have always numbered few. And those relationships I do retain are enhance, I think, by the increase in confidence and self-esteem attributable to Supermemo.
Despite whatever balance I have managed to maintain, however, I think I would give much of it up if only by doing so could I continue to use Supermemo. To be sure, knowing now that the program exists, I think if ever I were to lose access to Supermemo and my collection, I would become suicidal. That is no joke. God, family, and Supermemo: that is the order of my priorities.
Вы верите, что всего за несколько часов можно понять, как поставить правильное произношение, не изучая долго и нудно теоретическую фонетику, а всего-лишь поймав "фокус" языка?
Вы верите, что за несколько часов можно понять всю систему английских времен, которую безуспешно учат годами в школе, институте или на курсах?
Вы верите, что вместо скучных учебников можно заниматься по Вашим любимым фильмам и сериалам, испытывая при этом восторг и наслаждение от занятий английским?
Мы не только верим, а и твердо убеждены, так как уже сотни людей прошли по этому пути и поделились с нами своми успехами и достижениями!
И мы верим в Вас, потому что Вы легко научились говорить на языке, который на порядок сложнее английского!
Поэтому более простым и логичным английским Вы овладеете гораздо быстрее и легче! Конечно,если будете делать это правильно, естественным путем - моделируя носителей языка. Руководствуясь при этом не громоздкими правилами, а простыми и понятными визуальными моделями!
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