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“Reading remained Musk’s psychological retreat. Sometimes he would immerse himself in books all afternoon and most of the night, nine hours at a stretch.”
― Elon Musk
― Elon Musk
“Herbert Simon, an American economist and cognitive psychologist, wrote, “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention . . .”
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
“When we think of the world's future, we always mean the destination it will reach if it keeps going in the direction we can see it going in now; it does not occur to us that its path is not a straight line but a curve, constantly changing direction.”
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“She was told she had typhoid fever. Right away, as I still do today, I looked up the disease in medical books and read all about it.”
― "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
― "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
“According to the New York Times, the average person’s daily consumption of information now adds up to a remarkable 34 gigabytes.1”
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
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