'The Intellectual Life' by A.G. Sertillanges
The Classical Mind
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Take Notes in a Reflective Way
Jared Leto: Take notes in such a way that you are actually engaging with the thing. He says it is be careful about taking notes as you read something he says, and to take some time to more quietly digested what you're reading. Not every interesting observation gets to become a note, because a note's going to take up space both on my desk and in my mind,. Some of them are just going to have to be discarded, which is a skill I had to learn in graduate school. But another is becoming a note for some of these things like book notes. The idea of keeping so many notes around has been called disgusting.
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