Quantity gives experience. From experience alone can quality come.
Ray Bradbury • Zen in the Art of Writing
The challenge of writing as well as learning is therefore not so much to learn, but to understand, as we will already have learned what we understand.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
A writing example: when I look back in my notes I realize so much of what I write about today I was ruminating about 2-3 years ago. I always knew what I was going to say. I just didn’t have the tools, I didn’t have the maturity, I didn’t have the language or sensitivity to beauty to recognize what that was. So much of what I learned was latent, une... See more
Nix 🕊 • things that take time
Wisdom is accumulated knowledge that has been gained through repeated experience.