Your mind isn’t a bloody box to place toys in. It is a living, breathing environment. It’s a garden of knowledge that must be grown and cultivated across your entire life.

And no two people read the same book

your mind is a garden and not a storage box

Thinking happens inside your head first, then on paper. Any type of thinking on paper (notes, mind-mapping etc.) should help you think inside your head. But most people think on paper in order to skip doing the hard work of actually thinking with their brain. That’s why highlighting and annotating is pseudo-work; it feels like you’re doing work but... See more