Aquinas

Aquinas was a polymath who dictated multiple books simultaneously to fellow monks. Yet, his greatest work, the Summa Theologiae , remains unfinished. Near the end of his life, he had a mystical experience that led him to stop writing entirely, famously saying, "All that I have written appears to be as so much straw after the things that have been revealed to me".

: Keep your focus on what truly matters. aquinas

: Don't plunge into the deep end of a topic immediately; learn the foundations first. Aquinas was a polymath who dictated multiple books

We live in an era of "doomscrolling" and surface-level knowledge. Interestingly, Aquinas wrote about the vice of curiositas —which he defined as a disordered desire to know things we don't need to know or aren't ready to handle. : Keep your focus on what truly matters

If you’re ready to dive in, don’t feel like you have to read the Summa from page one. It’s better treated as a reference book. Pick a topic that interests you—happiness, law, or friendship—and see how he systematically breaks down objections before offering his own clear synthesis. Final Thought