What does the term "consideration" refer to and is it something academic?

In the Introduction to the devout life by St Francis de Sales we find ten meditations. In the first meditation we read: > Considerations. > > 1. Consider that but a few years since you were not born into the world, and your soul was as yet non-existent. Where wert thou then, O my soul? the world was already old, and yet of thee there was no sign. > > 2. God brought you out of this nothingness, in order to make you what you are, not because He had any need of you, but solely out of His Goodness. > > 3. Consider the being which God has given you; for it is the foremost being of this visible world, adapted to live eternally, and to be perfectly united to God’s Divine Majesty." - [Meditations From The Introduction To The Devout Life By St. Francis De Sales](https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/meditations-for-the-introduction-to-the-devout-life-by-st-francis-de-sales/) This consideration (whatever that term means) sounds very academic to me and I often have to tell myself to stop trying to do them before I have done more studying on these subjects. I am not sure they are intended to be academic but to me they sound academic. It might be that he wrote his book for people with good education in philosophy and theology. Many writers in what is called the French school of spirituality can sound like they want us to do academic meditations. What does the term "consideration" refers to and is it something academic?