The risk with relying on reading alone is dogma: quoting someone else's words as being unassailable truth. I love a good quote, or aphorism, or copy-pasta'd th

The risk with relying on reading alone is dogma: quoting someone else's words as being unassailable truth. I love a good quote, or aphorism, or copy-pasta'd thought technology as much as anyone. But there's profound power in understanding ideas well enough to re-formulate them in your own words, maybe even without referencing their origins. Best way to do that is practice, practice, practice.