With regard to almost any topic, you're 3-5 books away from having a productive conversation with a foremost expert and quite possibly teaching him or her something new. And this compounds — forever
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Calling the proper way to read "critical thinking" is like calling sex "recreational copulation." It's not wrong, but it's definitely not going to put you in the mood to do it right.
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So if you'd like to read for expertise, my advice for you is that you approach your next book like an incredibly sexy enemy, anticipating a battle of wits that's going to leave some battle scars
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Another thing: plenty of "good" books are just... bad. They won't play with you. They're so concerned about giving you the wrong idea that they'll hardly give you any ideas at all. I think you should almost always just move on. Maybe go for something somebody'll try to get burned
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I find that the simplest-yet-true way of thinking about it is terms of questions. Be obsessive about asking questions, chasing down the implications feverishly, getting answers that lead to new and more exciting questions. Eventually you get to questions at the frontier
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Like 1/4 of the notes I write in the margins are basically "wrong, motherfucker!" and a citation
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Yes, or approach bookreading with the mafia maxim: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. A great book is like an intimate enemy.
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Go on then
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The principle of charity but for sexiness! "Interpret a speaker’s statements in the sexiest way possible and, in the case of any argument, consider its sexiest, but also most adversarial possible interpretation."
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"Get in there and bang that essay, ese!"
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There's an effective but intense way to do this with technical books book: let's make a calculator app you: wait, go away, I want to try it myself (3 hours later) you: ok, come back, here's what I did book: here's how you do it you: ... Battle scars guaranteedpic.twitter.com/SZKwXPsWvp
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Unclear, but I’ll do my best
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