# Collectors Fallacy Collecting, and more generally *input*, can be addicting. You get the rush that you are *learning* and *improving*. While that may certainly be the case at times, the problem is that it is (to a degree) **ephemeral**. What we want is *not* to simply collect things. Rather, we want to **change our knowledge permanently**: > Collecting, just as Eco warned us, does not magically increase our knowledge. We have to read a text effectively to assimilate its ideas and learn from it. Reading effectively means the text changes our knowledge permanently. Only when we learn from it and begin to work with the ideas it presents. We need to extract what’s inside and write things down. --- Date: 20220606 Links to: [Learning & Creativity MOC](Learning%20&%20Creativity%20MOC.md) Tags: #review References: * [The Collector’s Fallacy • Zettelkasten Method](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/collectors-fallacy/)