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How to synthesize information from multiple books
How to analyze a book
How to set reading goals
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
MARK TWAIN
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Garbage in, Garbage out
There's an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income.
I think the same thing is true of our idea incomes. You're only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourse...
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All advice is autobiographical
When people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.
This book is me talking to a previous version of myself.
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Nothing is original.
The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something " original," nine out of ten times they just don't know the references or the original sources involved.
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothi...
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The Genealogy of ideas
Just as you have a familial genealogy, you also have a genealogy of ideas. You don't get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the mov...
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By curating the content I consume, I document my journey through time and space.
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Take control of your life
You are going to die – and this is a crucial fact for time management that is very often neglected.
Time management tools should allow you to take control of your life, and then structure your work around it – not the other way around.
How to stop blaming your partner when things go wrong
There are two ways to change this habit:
- Keep in mind that what your partner does is not personal (so don't take it that way) and more often than not, things just don't go according to plan.
- Instead of pushing blame towards your partner, make it an o...
Consider the context
When practising critical reading, it is crucial to be aware of the context of the text.
Before reading a text, ask :
- What do you want to gain from reading this topic?
- What are your existing beliefs?
- What do you think you know ...
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