Find a way to sit and focus on one thing and complete a task, even if you don’t want to. Finding a way to master all parts of yourself and doing something you don’t want to.
Socrates: you are less intelligent if you don’t internalize info to yourself and rely on other people
- gain knowledge without literature learn in a communal sense with people in a group context coming to a consensus
Plato: silent reading creates 2 selves: a self that reads and a self that is read to- a private self and a public self
- a person who has control over their body is what makes us not animals
- if one does not have a control of their private self what do they have the ability to control
If we can master all parts of ourselves we can help others find a way to do so with themselves
Reading is unnatural and it switches from public and someone teaching to splitting yourself and teaching yourself