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Brunello: In everything, really. For example, take Marcus Aurelius, the emperor. In any possible mood that you might be in, you read a sentence by him and you feel better. Any philosopher helps you to raise your head and the world will look better. Respect the human being, and that will be better. Hadrian the emperor said, “I never met anyone who... See more

Again, I feel similar to how Popova describes herself:

“A reader who writes.”

Interestingly, reading, thinking, and writing are all intertwined. Popova says:

“It’s hard to separate the reading and research part of the process from the writing and synthesis one. The osmosis of the two is where the magic happens – that place where you pull existing... See more

Could there be such a thing as a Synthesizing Quotient? If so, how might one test for it? Synthesizing can have a gestalt quality to it, but it seems to involve something more than the speed of gestalt image processing. Given their desire to search far and wide, I suspect that hyper-synthesizers are more open to change and instability than... See more