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Tess Murdoch's avatar

Thanks for these insights Hudson! I have some book recs - I cannot recommend Rachel Cusk's writing enough; she also happens to write about...writing, but in a beautifully tempered way - I would suggest starting with her Outline Trilogy https://us.macmillan.com/series/outlinetrilogy. I also just finished Coventry, a collection of her essays (many keen observations about family dynamics = always fun)

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Hudson Gardner's avatar

Thanks Tess! I will definitely check out the Outline Triology. Just the design of the covers make the books seem like ones I'd enjoy having around. The premise reminds me of Feynman's techniques of learning, which I was just reading today—mainly the idea that if you can't teach a subject or idea or process to a child, you probably don't understand it very well.

"It turns out that one of the ways we mask our lack of understanding is by using complicated vocabulary and jargon. The truth is, if you can’t define the words and terms you are using, you don’t really know what you’re talking about."

https://fs.blog/feynman-learning-technique/

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Hudson Gardner's avatar

Thanks Beau, I will definitely check out those books from Alexander... his ideas have been interesting to me for a while, and I think that I have been on the path of practicing them recently.

Steiner's book sounds like an important one for the manuscript I'm working on about Wildness, so I will also give that one a look!

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