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I too have the same problem. I’ve always wondered “what if I simply just read them and took a note / maybe linked them to a word or Google doc or something?”
by adaisadais 4y ago
I too have the same problem.
I’ve always wondered “what if I simply just read them and took a note / maybe linked them to a word or Google doc or something?”
I had a friend who did a similar activity with books. Read a book, took notes on the ‘highest learnings’ and saved each book he finished.
He went back and found an old book with all of his ‘wisdom’ and realized he had totally change since he wrote those things. He didn’t really care about them like he thought his future self might.
Knowledge / link hoarding is vanity.
- pessimizer 4y agoThis depends on the books that you're getting the 'highest learnings' from. If you're reading a bunch of biographies and self-help, you'll end up with notes that are simultaneously less interesting and more grandiose than if you do the same thing while reading math, science or real (non-biography/non-inspirational) history and anthropology books. i.e. don't record "wisdom," record information.
- adaisadais 4y agoHaha your name is great. The danger I find in information is a) there’s too much and b) it’s already out of date. Wisdom transcends time but is much harder to come by. “I’m not a pessimist, I’m an optometrist” -Ricky