Assemble a toolbox for thinking

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A truly wise person is not someone who knows everything, but someone who is able to make sense of things by drawing from an extended resource of interpretation schemes.

A virtuous circle, Learning facilitates learning.

If we practice Learning not as a pure accumulation of knowledge, but as an attempt to build up a latticework of theories and mental models to which information can stick, we enter a virtuous circle where learning facilitates learning.

To remember what you have learned, you need to build effective long-term memory structures.

Pay attention to what you want to remember.
Properly encode the information you want to keep. (This includes thinking about suitable cues.)
Practice recall.

We have to elaborate on what we read just to be able to write it down and translate it into different contexts.