Collecting material feels more useful than it usually is
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Collecting material feels more useful than it usually is
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#2always had a problem of saving everything and barely using like 2% of that
Re: Collecting material feels more useful than it usually is
#3always had a problem of saving everything and barely using like 2% of that
Get the war on your country. Now the books on laptop are the only idea how to spend the day with no electricity, wartime censourship obstructs downloading some new ones. Everything having a value but not needed is going to be sold really quickly. Sometimes a curious bomb will land down and destroy a lot of unused property.
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#5This hits home. It's just easier to accumulate and not make the actual effort to read, and I would say that rather than reading, it's more useful for learning to write, solve a problem, build something.
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#6I feel the exact opposite. I feel that the documents I've collected but only lightly recall form an extension of my mind. I routinely collect electronic copies of technical documentation and white papers which I broadly organize by topic. To me they represent an accessible knowledge base that I can draw upon when I need to.
I suppose my tendency to collect and organize documents is a coping mechanism for my notoriously insufficient memory. I retain far less than my peers, and will often vaguely remember having read something on a topic but have no recollection of the details or where I read it. Even topics that I go deep on and write about extensively in notes or communication will be largely gone from my mind in months to a year. So my document collection forms a kind of artificial replacement for the memory I never had.