Read The Ideas, Not The Words

Idea Count, Not Word Count

*Read … pause … think (and question) … write … think (and re-question) …. erase … write … read … pause … (repeat)* — Anonymous

The number of pages read does not connote the quantity of information derived. — 2004–08.14

Many people are taught to read and write, but they have been conditioned to be just `brain parroting`. Their minds are just word processors, not thought processors. They are processing words, not active synthesizing thoughts. They don’t pause to think and understand and just ramp on thumbing the words and pages just to complete the word count like a telematch to get count scores. Any machine can read, but they have to reason when they read. In many formal education, we are not taught well to think well.

What is important is not the materials extracted mechanically by factual reading, but the condensation from the distillation of thoughts processing crude information to essential ideas valuable and usable.

By end of the reading, the artefact should leave us — changed or transform someway or other, else we are not involved in transformative learning. The instruction must lead you to a thought path of adventure and discovery.

This is the difference between being knowing the name of something and understanding…