Cal Newport

The writing makes you reflect as well.

When you've done that think-write, however that's interleaved, now you understand.

Now you've gained understanding.

Without it, you're just sort of like skimming past concepts.

They're moving like images across the back of your eyes and not really sticking.

Let's do one more question here.

I got that $1,000 bottle of wine waiting.

I think it's like a $20 bottle of wine, but we'll see.

I'll report back.

All right.

Jenny writes, she says, do you read books for work at bedtime or do you stick to reading for pleasure?

For example, would you ever be using your corner marking method on a bedtime book?

All right, Jenny, that's a good question.

Yeah, it is a good question.

No, I don't.

The reason why I'm hesitating is that the line I draw is not work or non-work.

It's cognitive stimulation versus non-cognitive stimulation.

So I don't want to read in bed something that's highly cognitive stimulating, which for me is often like really original ideas that I'm thinking about and I'm processing and I get excited.

That fires up all my brain.

We're in Cal idea mode.