# You must linger among the master thinkers Created On: 11-01-2022 09:56 am Type: #note/literature📖 #source/quote Tags: [[Reading (MOC)]] --- ## Literature >You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. Everywhere means nowhere. > >– [[Seneca]] ## Notes * Ugh, this is so damn good! Poetic... Absolutely beautiful * I love this romanticized idea of a [[Master thinker]] - the unbounded wisdom seeker, never lost, but never truly found; steadfast to evolve the understanding and cultivate true wisdom... * Is a master-thinker a synonym for a [[Philosopher King]] in some capacity? * Obviously, Seneca's primary point in the first portion is that what should not we focus on being narrow readers as opposed to being very broad ones. * This actually may work against this idea to [[Be a T-skilled person]] * I think this depends on we're framing the horizontal nature of understanding and its importance in a given place/field * This idea of mulling... wading in the mind of an author is really powerful and shockingly tangible feeling * This philosophy works heavily against outcome-oriented reading, such as speed reading; the goal is to breathe in and establish a dialogue with the author, the thinker - **becoming one yourself**. * Appended the final [[Everywhere means nowhere]] line of this quote, which is often left out for some reason - it is so succinct. --- ## Reference(s) 1. TBD - [[Seneca]]