Feeding The Mind

This book presents the rules for fine information diet and healthy intellectual digestion. Originally written in 1907 it enlists the power of metaphor to make a prescient case for minding our intellectual diet and aims to make you see that it is one's duty no less than one's interest to read mark learn and inwardly digest the good books that fall in your way. It reminds us that non-reading is as much an intellectual choice as reading and admonishes against the perils of “over-reading”. Further it deals with the power of unconscious processing in productive work a sort of creative idling the value of which scientists have since proven. Finally it turns to the “mastication” portion of the process in which we make sense of what we've “ingested” and stresses the importance of cataloging new ideas via associative trails that affirm connection-making as the key to effective thought.