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Isaac Watts on Improving the Use of Logic

Pages 69-77 give Watts first extended practical tips on improving our use of logic. They are summarized as follows:

1. Read, Experience, Learn Broadly (Do not spend all your time staying in one place or thinking about one thing)

2. Make it Stick
a. Meditate daily on what you have learned that day
b. Talk daily about what you have learned that day
c. Write regularly on the most important things you have learned that day
3. Do not waste time studying unprofitable things (Find what helps you and stick with it)
4. Organize your Thoughts and Writing
a. Organize thoughts by learning to meditate at length about one subject
i. Drive out unrelated thoughts by any means possible
b. Organize your writings by cataloging according to subject matter (this will allow for later reflection, correction and addition)

My thoughts: I deduce that a blog can be a very helpful means (as would a journal, or notebooks, or files) of collecting daily meditations and organizing thoughts based on subjects. Therefore I should more diligently commit myself to writing out my thoughts on a regular basis.

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