“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands.” — Sherlock Holmes
Attic = 閣樓或 頂樓
Be your own cognitive curator; you decide what goes in and what stays out, making sure that you’re not wasting valuable mental space and energy on things that aren’t aligned with your goals or distract you from your goals.
