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The main difference is that you get the pleasure through yourself and not through external objects.

Just take care you don't get it from the external validation of you being that "always learning guy".

It must come from within

No one is really validating me for learning new things. I think the value of learning has more to do with whether you can leverage your learning in a socially positive way. It's hard to know whether learning about a particular topic will create opportunities to help anyone. I'm pretty sure no one but me will get anything from my recent interest in astrophysics beyond a little entertainment value. I consider it hedonic learning, but less so than stuff like pop culture trivia.

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