I periodically wonder why some people make notes in notebooks. I always look at my old notebooks to see whether they contain anything that would help with the question. One old notebook had this quotation, attributed to Abraham Maslow:
Every intellectual used to keep a journal.
Keeping a notebook almost seems natural to me. Different kinds of people do it: working folks who like to read, research scientists, teachers whose curiosity is not quite exhausted after a day in the classroom. It has something to do with liking to think. Perhaps it involves the notion that your own thoughts are, in a way, your life’s work.
• Source: Ronald Gross, The Independent Scholar’s Handbook; Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1982, p. 18. I have not been able to trace the quotation to one of Maslow’s books.
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