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“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. —JOHN DEWEY”
― Mike Byster, The Power of Forgetting: Six Essential Skills to Clear Out Brain Clutter and Become the Sharpest, Smartest You

“there is a difference between what the eyes “see” and what the mind “observes.” If your mind is “absent” when you perform an action, there can be no observation; more important, there can be no awareness of the action (learning) and subsequent creation of the memory.”
― Mike Byster, The Power of Forgetting: Six Essential Skills to Clear Out Brain Clutter and Become the Sharpest, Smartest You