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“We have no chance of knowing whether we understand something until we test ourselves in some form. If we don’t try to verify our understanding during our studies, we will happily enjoy the feeling of getting smarter and more knowledgeable while in reality staying as dumb as we were.”
- Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes
The friction between having an idea and seeing it realised used to be enormous. Weeks, months of wrestling something into form. That felt like a limitation - and it was - but it was also where digestion happened. In that gap between conception and creation, you discovered whether you actually cared about the idea or were just infatuated with it.... See more