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Old 01-31-2019, 08:46 PM   #11
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Realistically healthy humans don't experience any kind of euphoria or spirituality from learning, even when they're learning about spirituality or slight of hand.
I know a few for whom learning new things has a definite positive feel. I'm one of them. I get a mild limbic trigger from learning something new; it's just as good as having a piece of pie. (Given the choice, it's 50/50.)

I tried a few runs of the shuttle on an inkle loom. It gave me the same satisfactory sensation as a candy. Even as I realized I'm not interested in doing more work on one.

I get a feeling not unlike mild intoxication while doing research, and have all my life. I know others with similar reactions. In fact, the hardest part of working in the National Archives was not stopping to read all the filed minutiae. That job was like a drug... except for customers.
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Old 02-01-2019, 06:13 AM   #12
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Not quite on topic but in a GURPS game in which we were designing/discovering magic as we went along we ended up saying that a person's stock of saved xp was a real thing that a spell could detect. This was so that the PC wizards could explain why sometimes giving a person a new Advantage or curing a Disadvantage caused an equal and opposite loss elsewhere and sometimes just happened without cost.

We called it Fate I think or perhaps it was Karma. Yes, it was a very weird game.
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Old 02-01-2019, 07:13 AM   #13
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I get a feeling not unlike mild intoxication while doing research, and have all my life. I know others with similar reactions. In fact, the hardest part of working in the National Archives was not stopping to read all the filed minutiae. That job was like a drug... except for customers.
Yes. There's a definition I read years and years ago by some SF writer: "A dullard is someone who wants to find something out, gets out the encyclopedia, looks up the article on that topic, reads it, and then puts the encyclopedia back on the shelf without reading anything else."

In one of the Low-Tech volumes, probably LTC1, I suggested that a critical failure on a Research roll meant "You find a totally fascinating book or article on something that has nothing to do with your original question."
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Old 02-01-2019, 08:19 AM   #14
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There has been a number of times in my life where, one day, I struggled with a concept/skill/language, and the next day didn't. Those instances usually resulted in a short term (a few hours or so) 'high'.

I think the closest I felt to actually europhic in a personal improvement was the day I paid off a significant debt. That high lasted three or four months.
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Old 02-01-2019, 09:26 AM   #15
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In one of the Low-Tech volumes, probably LTC1, I suggested that a critical failure on a Research roll meant "You find a totally fascinating book or article on something that has nothing to do with your original question."
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failure means [the researcher] finds a really fascinating book that tells
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Old 02-25-2019, 04:53 AM   #16
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I think the closest I felt to actually europhic in a personal improvement…
How has no one mentioned “the quicken”? (HIGHLANDER reference)
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