as you mentioned in the 'illusion of learning' section of the essay, I also found myself racing to hoard ideas that weren't mine when I first began reading. I'd read an essay on psyche and force myself to remember the name of a phenomenon, I'd read a piece related to nutrition and then murmur the name of particular hormone to memorize it, simultaneously envisioning myself to use the term in future. And when the future did arrive, I found myself with zero memory or even recognition of the things I packed.
It is only after a significant time I realized that the intelligence can only be built by dissecting those ideas in quiet and sharing them just reduces my will to absorb them. I feel real intelligence lies in how much we can keep in rather how much we exert.
as you mentioned in the 'illusion of learning' section of the essay, I also found myself racing to hoard ideas that weren't mine when I first began reading. I'd read an essay on psyche and force myself to remember the name of a phenomenon, I'd read a piece related to nutrition and then murmur the name of particular hormone to memorize it, simultaneously envisioning myself to use the term in future. And when the future did arrive, I found myself with zero memory or even recognition of the things I packed.
It is only after a significant time I realized that the intelligence can only be built by dissecting those ideas in quiet and sharing them just reduces my will to absorb them. I feel real intelligence lies in how much we can keep in rather how much we exert.
BRILLIANT READ ! so true
I love the ending with the 6 books with a bit of irony
Love this line:" An idea only becomes yours after you’ve paid for it, with attention, confusion, and risk.".