[[Thinking]] Lon Setnik 2022-1-24 _When we see something again and again, we believe it regardless of it's truth._ The idea that when we are expose to a concept or text over again, our brain fools us into thinking we know it already, and it's true What we need to do is the act of writing in order to solidify our understanding and clarify for ourselves that we do or do not understand something Writing, then reading our writing and asking ourselves if we understand it, in what ways it was confusing, and what questions were raised, causes us to solidify our knowledge “Seeing something we have seen before causes the same emotional reaction as if we had been able to retrieve the information from our memory. Rereading, therefore, makes us feel we have learned what we read: “I know that already!”” ### Sources: [[🐓 Idea Farm/Deadfall/For myself only/Readwise/Books/How to Take Smart Notes]] — How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens https://a.co/hesSGDd