I ran across this quote from Schopenhauer in a video on Youtube last week:
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process …
(Why Obsidian will overtake Roam, around 13:45 in)
In the context of the video, in the area of PKM or Digital Gardening, this makes perfect sense. But seeing it out of context as I first did, I thought: Of course that’s what we do, that’s the point, and it’s valuable.
Having read too much Schopenhauer as a teenager, he could be a glass-half-empty kind of guy.
He also struck a nerve. I have to remember reading requires thinking, rethinking, and testing by doing in some form.