Understanding (MoC) - DeveloPassion

# Understanding (MoC) ## Overview Notes about understanding. ## Notes   - [[Aha moment]] - [[Automation is the serialization of understanding]] - [[Bad documentation helps those who went through the thought process, but not those who didn't]] - [[Benefits of considering notes as cattle rather than pets]] - [[Creating content enables reaching a deeper understanding of the subject matter]] - [[Eureka effect]] - [[How to implement the cattle approach in PKM]] - [[Incremental knowledge is much easier to maintain in a rich way]] - [[Intellego]] - [[It's far easier to understand something when you see the point as you're learning it]] - [[Knowing about something is not the same as knowing something]] - [[Learning requires stimulating imagination, not mindless memorization]] - [[Monkey see, monkey do]] - [[Paying attention to how our words are understood]] - [[The more we take notes, the more we improve our memory]] - [[Writing about a topic helps uncover the gaps in our understanding]] - [[You can always be misunderstood]]  ## Quotes   - [[A long document is like an entire body, it contains many things, and it's hard to describe or explain. An atomic note is like a very small part of the body. It's much easier to describe and explain]] - [[As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand]] - [[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves]] - [[Ideas that are easy to understand are easy to spread]] - [[If you can't measure it, you can't improve it]] - [[If you cannot explain why you believe what you believe, then it isn’t your belief, it’s someone else’s]] - [[If you really want to learn how something works, try to change it]] - [[If you're going to do anything new or innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood]] - [[In a world eager to win arguments, be the one who seeks to understand. Peace follows understanding, not victory. The greatest legacy we can leave is not wealth or fame, but a trail of peace that shapes the future]] - [[It is more productive to try to understand someone else’s point of view than to fight it. You either learn something new about the world or avoid wasting your energy on pointless arguments]] - [[Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding]] - [[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards]] - [[Love is the ultimate act of understanding]] - [[Simplicity isn't the lack of complexity. It's the clarity of understanding]] - [[Since no one understands the system any more, no one can stop it]] - [[Teach your children that not knowing something is not a bad thing, it is an opportunity to learn something]] - [[The act of knowing is an act of commitment. We are not merely passive observers of the world; we are active participants in its creation. We choose what we will pay attention to, and in doing so, we give meaning to the world]] - [[To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves]] - [[To understand is to forgive]] - [[Tools to enhance understanding]] - [[Understand. Don't memorize. Learn principles, not formulas]] - [[Understanding comes in naturally. Speaking comes out naturally. Reading comes in naturally. Writing comes out through study]] - [[We don't take notes about the literature. We take notes about our understanding of the literature]] - [[What limits your choice is understanding. A wise spirit always has fewer choices than a foolish one]] - [[When you discover a new subject or new information in a subject you know about, if you have no prior knowledge that you can associate this new information, it's much harder to learn, understand and memorize]] - [[When you simplify a complex idea, its influence expands It doesn’t just make it more understandable. It extends its reach and impact]] - [[Writing is understanding]] - [[You can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding]] - [[You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards]] - [[You don't know what you don't measure]]