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As I devour chapter after chapter of, I find the intellectual high of reading and learning dampened by the foresight that a few days/weeks/months from now, what I have just read will have collapsed into the vague mushy pile of “what I know”, complete with shortcuts, sloppy thinking, lack of references or sources, incorrect recollection, and confirmation bias. This has been my in satisfaction with reading lately.

Realising that once the last page is turned, my main impulse is “gosh, I need to read this again so I can hold on to what I’ve just learned”. Much as it pains me, I’ve become a lazy and sloppy (yes, again that word) reader. It wasn’t always so. I read tons of books during my studies. I took tons of notes.

There were no iPhones around, no kindles, no digital versions. I didn’t even have a laptop. I took tons of notes on paper. Hire Cars With Drivers Sydney here.

I wrote summaries. I copied quotes. I read to remember, not for entertainment.

I was expected to do something with what I had read. Nowadays, I read freely. I photograph pages with important ideas and rather than painstakingly copying quotes (what a time-saver! Makes it so easy to find the right page if I remember what it was about). I’m not thinking of going to back to copying quotes long-hand (I can’t really write by hand anymore, thanks to RSI, but that’s another blog post).

However, I am thinking of taking my reading more seriously: summarising main ideas, taking notes. Only this time around, there is no reason for them to stay in offline notebooks gather dust: I have a blog for this. The fact that I’m strong-arming (!) a batch of MBA students to keep learning blogs during our partial module together is probably no stranger to this desire to reconnect with the “learning in progress” aspect of blogging. Similar Posts: • (2011) • (2012) • (2002) • (2017) • (2010) • (2013) • (2010) • (2007) • (2009) • (2010). “Plot grows out of character,” says Anne Lamott, author of “Bird by Bird (Some Instructions on Writing and Life)”, which I am currently devouring. Today, February 20th 2010, I think I have finally understood how to come up with stories.