self-directed study // reading: ultimate goals
goals of reading – How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler Getting more information is learning, and so is coming to understand what you did not understand before. -Mortimer J. Adler Knowing something...
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We can carve time out of thin air, or we can fill up even infinite stretches of time with nothingness. These are our choices. -Eric Maisel What has waited long enough? In what ways can you facilitate...
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Small and gentle daily actions build upon themselves to make large accomplishments. -Julia Cameron, Finding Water A self-directed study is a life-giving and guiding practice for both learning and...
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notes from How to Read a Book by Mortimer J Adler The process is something like the trial-and-error method of putting a jigsaw puzzle together. The more parts you put together, the easier it is to find...
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starting point for today I’m talking about living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear. -Elizabeth Gilbert Blogging every day this month has been fueled by curiosity and made...
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[contents] How to Read a Book by Mortimer J AdlerTo make knowledge practical we must convert it into rules of operation. We must pass from knowing what is the case to knowing what to do about it if we...
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To draw you must close your eyes and sing. -Pablo Picasso This series is half-way written and I am delighted by the response I have received as well as celebrating the many self-directed studies I have...
View Articleself-directed study // creative concentration
creative concentration – Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry The great benefit of drawing … is that when you look at something, you see it for the first time. And you can spend...
View Articleself-directed study // attentiveness, line by line
…the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. -Mary Oliver Gluebooking is a means of creative note-taking and facilitates a time for...
View Articleself-directed study // reading: dimensions
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. -Mortimer J. Adler A self-directed study begins with a promise to...
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -Hans Hofmann The practice of eliminating the unnecessary is the key to effective note-taking as a means of...
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