While the quiz is obviously designed for someone 5+ years out of college I think it might wrongly “penalize” those who strongly embrace technology. I don’t frequent the brick and mortar library too often but I’ve downloaded several eBooks and audiobooks in the last year. Likewise, even though my iPod is always on I listen to actual music maybe a couple hours a month…but I download dozens of podcasts each day. Some are purely entertainment but there’s also science, history, current events, business strategy, etc. And I’m tackling an iTunes U program about Game Theory right now. Two mythology classes are next.

Yep, with that, er, rationalization I can safely proclaim that I am NOT becoming an idiot.

Thanks for the fun post!

Regarding television: If you subtract out the time you spend watching educational programming do you still spend less time reading than watching non-educational television or channel surfing?

It isn’t that all TV watching is bad, but it does encourage a kind of passive mindset and you don’t want that to be the majority of your activities.

Mysterious Island by Verne is another book where I remember being amazed at the breadth of knowledge that was presented.

If people like it, maybe I should try to do a more detailed self scoring version.

I have to pass this along. Thanks

I like the concepts brought up in this quiz. While I go to the library multiple times a month, as well as to bookstores, I haven’t gone to any cool seminars recently. I also very rarely read old books. Basically all I read is fairly new non-fiction material.

This reminds us that we have to keep our minds active by choice, or else we don’t even know what we lost.

I don’t want to become an idiot.