Intellect

Sharing this article on “How To Remember Everything You Read”. Using some of these daily now.

> Purpose arrived later, hiding inside the nervous grin of a sophomore from Karachi preparing her first oral argument. Her hands trembled, voice cracked, but she never stepped back. We worked through the night, chopping lines, punching transitions, rehearsing counters. Two months later she stood in a law school... See more

We can’t address the decline in empathy without addressing the decline in attention. Empathy requires a degree of sustained focus: Paying attention to an experience someone is sharing Recalling experiencing a similar emotional response Sitting with your own and... See more

> He correctly notes that we learn from others, but doesn't distinguish between thoughtful deference to expertise and mindless submission to authority. In his rush to deflate contrarian individualism, he ends up championing a conformism that's perhaps even more dangerous in its own way. The truth, as usual, lies... See more

> every professor I ever admired loved the game of questioning more than the silence of certainty.

“I don’t know” is not an admission of ignorance. It’s an expression of intellectual humility. “I was wrong” is not a confession of failure. It’s a display of intellectual integrity. “I don’t understand” is not a sign of stupidity. It’s a catalyst for intellectual curiosity.