Are you really saying you think everything on this list is “obviously” beneficial? I probably only agree with half the stuff on the list. For example, I certainly disagree that I should “summarize things that I read” (?) or that I should have a “good mentor” by emailing people to request that they mentor me.
I personally don’t find anything on the list disagreeable (including the summarization and mentoring items).
Summarization is a pretty well established memory consolidation technique to improve long-term recall of information. The OP does not explicitly state this is the aim, but that was my assumption, and if so I think it is uncontroversial that that is beneficial.
Regarding the mentoring, the item on the list was “you would have a good mentor” (which I agree with) and then underneath is “One way to do this is to email people” (which I also agree with in the sense that emailing is clearly one way to do this—I do not necessarily feel this is a good way or the best way, but the OP does not say it is, just that it is “one way”).
I can see why you would disagree that you “should have a ‘good mentor’ by emailing people to request that they mentor me” (I also disagree that such an approach is close to optimal) but I do not think this is what the OP says.
I disagree with the summarization suggestion for the same reason that I disagree with many of the items—I don’t have (much of) the problem they are trying to solve, so why would I expend effort to attack a problem I don’t have?
The most obvious is “carrying extra batteries for my phone.” My phone never runs out of battery; I should not carry batteries that I will never use. Similarly: I don’t have a problem with losing things, such that I need extra. (If I had extra, I would plausibly give them away to save physical space!) I don’t find myself wishing I remembered more of my thoughts, such that I should take the effort to capture and retain them. And I don’t feel the need to remember more than I already do about the stuff that I read, so that makes me not inclined to take time away from the rest of my life and spend it remembering more things.
Are you really saying you think everything on this list is “obviously” beneficial? I probably only agree with half the stuff on the list. For example, I certainly disagree that I should “summarize things that I read” (?) or that I should have a “good mentor” by emailing people to request that they mentor me.
I personally don’t find anything on the list disagreeable (including the summarization and mentoring items).
Summarization is a pretty well established memory consolidation technique to improve long-term recall of information. The OP does not explicitly state this is the aim, but that was my assumption, and if so I think it is uncontroversial that that is beneficial.
Regarding the mentoring, the item on the list was “you would have a good mentor” (which I agree with) and then underneath is “One way to do this is to email people” (which I also agree with in the sense that emailing is clearly one way to do this—I do not necessarily feel this is a good way or the best way, but the OP does not say it is, just that it is “one way”).
I can see why you would disagree that you “should have a ‘good mentor’ by emailing people to request that they mentor me” (I also disagree that such an approach is close to optimal) but I do not think this is what the OP says.
I disagree with the summarization suggestion for the same reason that I disagree with many of the items—I don’t have (much of) the problem they are trying to solve, so why would I expend effort to attack a problem I don’t have?
The most obvious is “carrying extra batteries for my phone.” My phone never runs out of battery; I should not carry batteries that I will never use. Similarly: I don’t have a problem with losing things, such that I need extra. (If I had extra, I would plausibly give them away to save physical space!) I don’t find myself wishing I remembered more of my thoughts, such that I should take the effort to capture and retain them. And I don’t feel the need to remember more than I already do about the stuff that I read, so that makes me not inclined to take time away from the rest of my life and spend it remembering more things.