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I once thought about how much reading can kill/vanish your originality. Try not to get influenced by other people, for we (i) easily memorised and copying others.

I hate motivators.

I think some people may be smart because they read too much, and some people maybe smart because they dont read too much. They read of course, but less. Maybe they rely on much practice, i mean like :

You want to know something, then you must emptying your brain from any theory and you configured yourself by practicing. If you failed, you not immediately look up on theory inside books, you just keep doing and practicing until you find the answer why it failed. That is smart, and inventor kind. But that kind of smart maybe only for our anchestors, when there s not so much invention, just like T.A.Edison.

Or maybe they are smart because they write journals. Journals of how they failed.