created 2025-06-30, & modified, =this.modified
Is writing, or the need for note-taking, as part of the practice of reading essential at some point?
Meaning, if you are to really understand a work, that is advanced, must you draw connections to other works?
It’s obvious you cannot just look at an “advanced” book a single isolated thing, read linearly. A math book isn’t read like this.
I do not feel any sense of being daunted by a difficult text (even though it may remain largely incomprehensible to me.)
It is never a chore. I may, at times, assemble a set of tools (other works, and personal experiences) which I will use as a means to understand (like a rope, and torch in a cave).