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关注DailyBlah 微信公众号 搜索daily blah 订阅，获取音频原文，了解更丰富的口语文化知识。 新浪微博搜索关注SeanFreeman 免费观看最新daily blah视频和更多推送！ 荔枝FM已经开通打赏荔枝功能，支持我的壕们不妨表示一下``(^o^)/~~~么么哒 音频原文： Get Inside Your Favorite Thinker’s Head Got a favorite writer or thinker? You’d probably love to spend a day with them. It’d be fun to talk, ask about their writings or speeches and the habits they’ve developed. Few of us are so lucky. It’s a rare opportunity without the right connections or network. Is there another way? How would you get into their head and really understand what they were thinking and perceiving? There’s this guy Simon Morris who has found a way to get into authors and thinkers’ heads that you could even do today. What did he do? He Rewrote a book. He retyped the whole thing from start to finish and then published it on his blog. Sound like a pretentious art project? Yes. Sound kind of dumb? Yes. Did it work? Yes. Simon Morris probably knows how the writer thought and wrote very well. Better than his biographers or his closest friends. All because he rewrote the original and proofread it as well. Here’s how Morris described it: “…Not only do I type it up word for word each day but I proofread each page, checking for mistakes before posting it on the blog…so each page is being re-typed and read several times…but the level of scrutiny that the daily activity has opened up to me in my reading has drawn my attention to certain characteristics in writer’s prose which in the normal reading style I’m fairly certain I wouldn’t have noticed.” Rewriting the book word-for-word helped Simon Morris go beyond normal intake into an elite state of comprehension. His attention was heightened. His critical thinking skills improved. What can we learn from rewriting? 1. Enhanced Creativity An English professor and creative thinker, said this about Morris’ project in Uncreative Writing: “Morris shows us that appropriation need not be a mere passing along of information, but, in fact moving information can inspire a different sort of creativity in the ‘author’ producing different versions and additions — remixes even — of an existing text.” The professor was interested in the artistic repercussions of a project — especially relevant in the age of remixes, samplings and artistic innovation. I’ve also written before how this is a great way to jumpstart your own creativity or writing project. 2. More Memorable Than Highlighting or Notetaking Highlighting for me in ebooks or underlining in print books is almost second nature, especially when it’s instructional or business-related. But unless I flip through those pages again, it’s kind of a wash. Maybe I’ll save it on Evernote or Google Keep or repost to Twitter. But then it’s a drop in the flood of messages. 3. Inhabit Key Messages Rather Than Tossing Them Off Because of how much I read and take in these days, it’s becoming more and more important to me to remember, not just to refer back to something. This rewriting method lets you do it. For me, it could mean a verse from the Bible or a key passage from a book. I can rewrite that in a journal and just the act of physically retype it will help me remember more than just highlighting it. 4. You Don’t Have To Rewrite The Whole Thing One of the more daunting aspects of Morris’ project is that he rewrote the whole book. That’s certainly an option, but it also sets the bar extremely high. You don’t have to do that. You could only rewrite a section or several sections that you find inspirational, amazing or admirable. There’s not a hard and fast rule to this. This method is meant to help you get to know your favorite thinkers and artists better and to actually use the thoughts they put in the world. Don’t make it too hard; make it useful.