William Macomber was a philosopher that taught at the University of Santa Barbara for a few years in the late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies. Macomber as a strong advocate of having fun while you are learning. Macomber strongly recommended creatively finding ways to make a piece of information you are struggling with interesting if you find it unappealing. Macomber suggests strategies such as falling in love with someone who lives far away if you want to improve your writing and falling in love with someone who lives nearby if you want to improve you speaking. It's very good advice.
In grade school I had the problem of failing classes because I simply found the material uninteresting. I was running track at the time and I was really doing well though I was told I couldn't run anymore until I brought my grades up. I was going through a depression as well during the time which made it harder to read the material for school. I eventually found that small things, such as walking faster made me happier and pretending that the material was interesting made it interesting for me. I would read an uninteresting fact and say to myself "wow, this is incredible" and eventually I really did find many things from my reading material in grade school very interesting.
I couldn't keep it going forever. I don't suppose I was as keen or smart as Macomber was and I think that there is definitely a lot to learn from him.
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