Just like everything else, thinking takes practice.
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Of course, it also requires to read books. It would be challenging to have to recreate thousands of years worth of accumulated thought building blocks on your own.
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Books are other people's thoughts, already selected as interesting or beautiful by many harsh filters (in particular time), and they are full of delicious thought building blocks
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And realise that we are standing on the shoulders of giants! And then begin to think on that. Do you agree what was said before? Do you have your own interesting take? Can we combine and creating something bigger then just the sum of the parts...
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om nom nom
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I totally agree. Your book is one of those thought building blocks.
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IMO thought is not built from blocks but with a sledgehammer and pouring fresh concrete.
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Reading books is kind of like using others' thought embeddings to train our own networks :)
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Those books definitely contain knowledge. But the reader of philosophy books must be ready for that knowledge as well. Often I seen people quote books after books with no original thought of their own.
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