But Reading Isn’t Enough
Commenting on what it means to have knowledge, in How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler writes: “The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”
Can you explain what you know to someone else? Try it. Pick an idea you think you have a grasp of and write it out on a sheet of paper as if you were explaining it to someone else.
Another way to get smarter, outside of reading, is to surround yourself with people who are not afraid to challenge your ideas.
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