A Blank Sheet, A New Start?

What if reading was just the start of thinking?

For a while now, My Right Mind has been a bit of a wandering space. Ideas, half-built frameworks, things I was curious about but couldn’t quite stick the landing on. Maybe you’ve been there too—where you’re thinking through something, but it hasn’t clicked yet.

This might be one of those clicks.

Lately I’ve been digging into an old-but-powerful reading method by Eugene Schwartz—not a curriculum exactly, more like a framework for how the mind builds meaning through stories. It’s called the "Blank Sheet" method, and at first glance it looks simple: you hear a story, recall the main thought, outline it, retell it. But when you go deeper, it’s really about training the mind to think structurally—to hold, compress, and recreate meaning from the inside out.

I’m starting to see it less as a reading strategy and more as a thinking system. A quiet, recursive method for shaping attention, memory, and thought. And it feels like the kind of thing we’re hungry for right now—not more content, but better ways to hold and shape it. Not just teaching kids to read, but giving them the tools to think with language, not just through it.

So… maybe this is the beginning of something.
Or maybe it’s just another stone turned over on the way to somewhere else.
Either way, I’m posting this here to see if it sparks anything—for me, or for you.

If this idea lands with you—if the concept of a “thinking system” for reading sounds interesting, or if you’re into the intersection of storytelling, cognition, and learning—let me know. Comment, email, or just stick around. I might start building something from this blank sheet.

Let’s see where it goes.