Note-taking turns the mind, he tells us, into a running brook:
Of two travelers, one an assiduous note-taker, the other a passive enjoyer, see which one will weary sooner. The act of writing, even if only jotting down memoranda, clears the wires. You get rid of one idea, another is able to take its place. Instead of remaining a stagnant pool, the mind becomes a running brook. In museum or landscape, on street or in train, one can keep this up for hours and finish as fresh as he began. The only fatigue will be physical: no slackening of interest. Note-taking, furthermore, even if one never look at his notes again, fixes experience in the memory. One thinks he will be able to remember everything, but reading over even desultory notes, he is surprised to find how much would otherwise be forgotten.
(Quoted from page 125 of Winged Sandals, by Lucien Price. Little, Brown, and Company, 1928.)
For a brief biography of Lucien Price, click here.
Of two travelers, one an assiduous note-taker, the other a passive enjoyer, see which one will weary sooner. The act of writing, even if only jotting down memoranda, clears the wires. You get rid of one idea, another is able to take its place. Instead of remaining a stagnant pool, the mind becomes a running brook. In museum or landscape, on street or in train, one can keep this up for hours and finish as fresh as he began. The only fatigue will be physical: no slackening of interest. Note-taking, furthermore, even if one never look at his notes again, fixes experience in the memory. One thinks he will be able to remember everything, but reading over even desultory notes, he is surprised to find how much would otherwise be forgotten.
(Quoted from page 125 of Winged Sandals, by Lucien Price. Little, Brown, and Company, 1928.)
For a brief biography of Lucien Price, click here.
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