
What is the difference between mulling something over and contemplating?
A lot of people asked Dr. Peter Popper what it takes to be as knowledgeable is he is. His answer is: reading. And then contemplate over what you read. And then reading more. Contemplate more.
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Contemplating means to think about, to LOOK thoughtfully for a long time at something. Instead of what most people do prejudge, or judge the thing. Or even simply just understand.
Contemplating makes you expand mentally.
You rebuild your worldview, you rebuild your view of the world when you do it rightly.
Understanding is always fitting something in the limited knowledge you have, not expanding it, not what Life or an author meant. Near worthless.
Instead of reading and contemplating, most people mull things over in their minds… after they judged it as right or wrong.
One is mulling thin