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- Author: The Building a Second Brain Podcast
- Full Title: You Only Know What You Make
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- URL: https://www.airr.io/episode/5e8265e24cc59fc5272e9c06
Highlights
of having gotten smarter, but I don’t think, actually did get smarter. I think it was kind of an illusion. It was kind of, ah, form of intellectual entertainment. And I just decided, You know what, what do I really care about impressive stats or actually engaging at the deepest levels of these ideas? And it was it was definitely the latter. And so what I decided, really just a year to ago was, What if I read a fraction of the amount of books? What if I said of 30 books a year? I read five or 10 but I completely immerse myself. So that’s what I do is I step into the role of the author almost so. I read a summary, but the summary is not just straight quotes. It’s not like an exact scientific summary. I actually add my own interpretations. I had my own metaphors that I think sometimes air even better for certain people than the metaphors in the books. I’m injecting my own creativity into it. It’s almost like I’m I’m setting myself up as as a pseudo authority, not on the original subject matter on the original research on the book. I become the (Time 0:03:53) (Time 0:03:33)