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+{{cquote|As a person of intense curiosity and creative impulse, I've always wondered why am I like this? As a child I was bothered by my difference from others around me and at the time I was convinced that there was something wrong with me.
+For a long time I did not understand why I was like I was; a person with a passion for sciences, philosophy, arts, music and practically everything was interesting to me. It was a endless exploration of how, why, when, and if things worked and operated.
+Only during my late teens did I begin to understand all the manifold subjects and interests that I had.
+That understanding came from the evermore popular internet and it's potential for storing and sharing information.
+Searching the internet for infomation was somewhat an art or a skill in itself during the 1995-2001 when all you had was words or a loose image in your head.
+When Wikipedia started gathering momentum and with that more articles, finding information came that much more efficient and productive.
+Now I know why I am like I am.
+I am an INTP according to the Jungian personality type topology.
+My tendency towards learning multiple skills and memorising massed ammounts of knowledge has a name: Polymath.
+My ethical and political values also have a definition: Liberal Nationalist.
+I would most likely still be plagued by self doubt and feel that there is something wrong with me if it was not for knowledge.
+Wikipedia brought and gave that knowled to me and for that it has proven how vital and indispensable knowledge and understanding is.
+Thank you for helping me understand myself and the world that I live in. }}
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 {{cquote|Wikipedia is a very valuable tool for me as a translator of medical and pharmaceutical materials from Japanese into English. When I need a little background information to make sure I am understanding a sentence correctly, Wikipaedia is always the first place I turn to. The hyperlinks are great: I can quickly jump to a more general article to get a wider view of the subject, or zero in on the specific content I need to understand.
 No translator can know as much as