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One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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This concept can be applied to Story. It doesn’t matter how much you pile onto a story (characters, locations, aesthetics etc) if it has no meaning the story will fail to connect with its audience.
Sharing this article on “How To Remember Everything You Read”.
Using some of these daily now.
Polymath Investorsubstack.com“Nothing is more distressing than a thought that escapes itself, than ideas that fly off, that disappear hardly formed, already eroded by forgetfulness or precipitated into others that we no longer master.”
Cortney Cassidy • A soft manifesto
“Our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger.” — Petrarch
We must beware of a certain craze for collecting which sometimes takes possession of those who make notes. They want to have a full notebook or filing cabinet; they are in a hurry to put something in the empty spaces, and they accumulate passages as other people fill stamp and postcard albums.
A.D. Sertillanges • THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods - Sertillanges
Sometimes careful note-collection can be a cure for forgetfulness; the problem is not collecting, but losing focus on understanding what matters.
Taking notes, I’ve come to realize, is a form of collecting. I’ve never been interested in collecting physical things, but when it comes to beautiful literary quotes, I have thousands of notebook entries.
