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Nonage (immaturity) is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack o funderstand but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind wihtout another's guidance.

The tollbox:

1. pen and paper or a Word document
2. reference management system (Zotero)
3. the slip box (obsidian)
4. an editor

steps to writing:

1. make fleeting notes.
2. make literature notes
3. make permanent notes
4. add permanent notes to the slip box

Niklas Luhmann's Slip-box technique

Luhmann stored information in two slip boxes - one for bibliographical information and the other for main information.

The bibliographical one contained references to ideas kept in the main box to trace back origins and explore related ideas.

The separation of the main slip box allowed full focus on the ideas without getting lost in the organization.

Dunning-Kruger effect - amateurs are more likely to overestimate their abilities than the experts. Poor students lack insight into their own limitations - as they would have to know about the vast amoung of knowledge out there to be able to see how little they know in comparison.

Instead of using your willpower to do what you want to do, focus on creating an environment that naturally nudges you to do that without the use of willpower....willpower is scarce.