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#+title: Information is only acquired when you try to make sense of it
#+date: "2021-05-14 12:15:54 +08:00"
#+date_modified: "2021-07-19 17:40:51 +08:00"
#+language: en


Information that is absorbed and not applied is just something that we know.
And knowing something is different from understanding something.

No matter how many articles, videos, and images you read, information only stays in the author's intent until you take the time to make sense of it.
It will never start unless you experiment.
One of the simplest way to start is to sit down, [[id:b318dc2b-5fa1-48ff-9d33-6fbbdee46a2f][Write down the simplest possible example]], and work your way through those examples.

We should exercise caution when we collect knowledge: collecting books, downloading eBooks, bookmarking articles, and archiving resources.
[[id:6b0e6b75-410f-42a3-8921-bcc4589b2d2a][Collecting information only feels like progress]].
We never used them.
It is just the same as window shopping for that wanted thing except we bought it and just an arm's length away when we want to use it.

That doesn't mean we should understand every bit of information coming our way.
In the end, [[id:864a9242-eb10-44ad-81b7-c237276523e5][We know more compared to what we understood]].
