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at to mystic institute.org. I'm going to make matters worse by also having three points.

Thankfully, though, the three points of my TED talk are pointing at something slightly different

from Father's topic. I'll be pointing at some of the psychological activities that comprise the complex activity that we call study.

Regarding these activities, I will address three hows, two of which are going to be theoretical,

and the last of which is going to be practical, or so I hope.

I will look first at how studying differs from imposter activities that we might mistake for

studying, especially when we're trying to study. Second, I'll note how consecrated study,

which I will be addressing, differs from sacred study, which father was

addressing. And third, I'll suggest how we might go about consecrating our acts of studying.

So part one. How does studying differ from its impostors? I hope you will indulge me with a brief vignette.

Suppose you arrived in D.C. yesterday afternoon, with just enough time to explore a bit

before the beginning of the conference.

Suppose, too, that although you have in your pocket a T.I. provided map of the Catholic

Wonderland that is Northeast D.C.

You decide to go rustic and just walk around. You even decide to leave your phone behind.

As you walk, you engage in the activity that I'm calling spectating. You perceive things and how they are related to other

things. As you focus your attention on things, your imagination spontaneously forms an internal

representation of them. A.G. Sertilange, O.P., calls this internal representation an effigy of the real. In spectating, our attention

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