It's Wednesday night. I am so tired. New thought for the day: according to this classical model of education the idea seems to be that three exposures to new material makes it graspable. So does that mean that I should read every book three times? Because one of my great struggles with reading remains: I read a book, I love a book, but a month later I may not be able to tell you what the book was about. I also have a difficult time summarizing content for the sake of discussion, which is a major disadvantage when you want to get a third person's input.
Michael suggests that I should simply take good notes on first reading. He has a point.
I have this notebook I started using for note-taking a while back. I used it for a good while with a certain success. These pages, they were filled from margin to margin with thoughts, extrapolations, quotations. I stopped doing that after a while, but the time has probably come to resume it.
I'm reading a book right now, a book that frustrates me. I'm not certain the author has engaged her ideas with enough depth. Michael says to me, maybe you need to examine these ideas, do your own research, develop an outline based on this other author's work, and use it as the basis for your own book. Address the problem directly. It's a good idea. Welcome to the rest of my life.
I don't know. Can I develop the mental discipline to do such a thing?
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