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slightly ot, but pg just recently wrote an essay about the issue: > Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience
by timdaub 12y ago
slightly ot, but pg just recently wrote an essay about the issue:
> Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why.
http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html
- Sealy 12y agoFascinated by that context which leads me to remember what a wise man once taught me (at a church I used to go to). He said, "I can't always remember what my wife cooked for me last night, neither can I last week, or even many of the meals she's lovingly prepared for me over the last 10 years. However without them, I wouldn't be here today" Bringing it back to topic, I forget very easily but read quite often. When I do read, I find it often helps if what I'm reading is of interest to me or at least inspiring in some way.
- sitkack 12y agoA book shapes the mind and allows us to ask more questions, pushes creativity new directions. Very rarely does one want to just download a book into the brain. We want to synthesize it, as you say, eat it as food.