The Willingness To Learn Options

[square_guy]

This is a split-off from the RL' grooming method.

yp212 said something which makes me think.

THE QUESTION IS

What is willingness to learn?

In my humble opinion, a willingness to learn to to get to the bottom of everything as much as possible in the best of one's ability. This means the following

1. NOT to take things at face value.
2. In the internet-age, to counter-check published articles with reliable cross-references, experienced peers and science.
3. To carefully consider everthing and try to pick everything apart, and to FULLY UNDERSTAND the rationale and background science.
4. Do it yourself and check for repeatability.

It is not enough for me for someone to tell me "this works for me" and that's it! Sure this sometimes make life more difficult but the learning is part of the fun. For this reason I'm still on this board where I thought there exist a good culture to dissect everthing under the sun (wrt to goldfish keeping)

People, what are you thoughts?