it’s easy to fall into the assumption that the point of reading or listening to things is to add to your storehouse of knowledge and insights, like a squirrel hoarding nuts, in preparation for a future when you’ll finally get to take advantage of it all. (This attitude prompts some people to develop complicated systems for taking notes on
everything they read, which turns readinginto a chore, which then perversely leads to their not reading books they’d otherwise enjoy or benefit from, becauseterm benefits of reading arise not from facts you insert into your brain, but from the ways in which reading changes you, by shaping your sensibility...
