Learning Curve

I'm a great deal smarter than I was last month. What do I chalk this up to? During the entire month of August I've been subscribing to podcasts. The personal changes due to my purchase of an mp3 player are quite profound. I used to have a rather unsavory option of those who walked around listening to portable devices. Let me see if I can find an example. At the beginning of the summer, I said this. It's okay to have changed my mind.

It must be a sign of age when one starts repeating oneself, don't you think? Perhaps, however, I should just chalk up the inconsistencies to my increasing wisdom. Times change and so do opinions. As I said, I'm a lot smarter than I was last month!

I'd venture I help form a very strange demographic of mp3-player ownership. I seldom, if at all, listen to music on mine. Oh, I have at least a dozen albums tucked away. Yet, I have spent many hours this month listening to reports more educational than musical. I seldom walk out the front door without podcasts in my pocket. Being able to listen to in-depth NPR stories from around the globe, or commentary on the latest technology buzz is extraordinary. It's as if an additional method of input, has increased how much I can experience in a single day.

I am most probably an auditory learner and it just feels so gratifying to have found media which can provide more than a few simple soundbites. Most standard, daily news coverage just glosses over several navel-gazing topics. If one ventures out into podcastland, there's a lot of meaty information to be discovered.