Connect The Dots: Strategies and Meditations On Self-education

Curiosity is the panacea to boredom. If you are having a hard time connecting a dull body of knowledge to your endeavors, keep asking yourself questions and don’t sleep until you find at least a glimmer of an answer.

Organizing your engine of knowledge and prioritizing your time to use it will keep that valuable content within reach.

To reinforce the connections in our mind, we must think, apply, experiment, and discuss the information.

Absorbing all kinds of worldviews and wisdom lays down a great foundation, but what is a foundation without building something on top of it?

relieved in the pursuit of understanding. I’ve learned to fall in love with that word — understanding — because an understanding shows that we are connecting the dots in our mind, even if we disagree with the idea.

To be teachable is to be open to new and foreign ideas. To allow dots to enter into the mind and simmer. It’s about letting curiosity take the lead, introducing you to new thoughts, beliefs, and patterns. It is about evolving your understanding.

I transfer all my quotes and passage to a commonplace book (more on this later).

We reserve no time for creating, learning, thinking, and reflecting, but instead, only consuming, criticizing, and comparing. The challenge isn’t to find better tools to lead a more productive life, it’s learning to be mindful of the tools that have already taken root. Mindfulness while using technology is important, and therefore the future belong

I believe that the desire to learn is the lifeblood of learning, and, ultimately, the key to living a great life.

In Big Questions From Little People and Simple Answers From Brilliant Minds, curated by Gemma Elwin Harris,