I’d been treating my brain like a hard drive: Transfer the file, and it’s there. But that’s not how it works at all, not even close. Learning is more like digestion. You don’t absorb more nutrition by eating faster. Past a certain rate, you just stop digesting, and the food you’re cramming in isn’t feeding you, it’s just passing through. The real nutritive work — the part that actually makes you stronger — happens after you stop eating, over hours, invisibly. And you can’t speed it up by eating more.
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