Holmes says to Watson:
“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little
empty attic, you have to stock it with such furniture
as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every
sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge
which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at
best is jumbled up, so that he has a difficulty laying
his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very
careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic.”
empty attic, you have to stock it with such furniture
as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every
sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge
which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at
best is jumbled up, so that he has a difficulty laying
his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very
careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic.”
And in the words of Einstein
‘never memorize what you can look up.’
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