The Lamp Magazine | The One Hundred Pages Strategy

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Burkeman highlights Robert Boice, a psychology professor who studies the various habits and routines of writers. His research uncovered something counterintuitive and revelatory. Writers who made writing a smaller, shorter part of their day were decidedly more productive and succe

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Bennett recommends an hour and a half to be stolen from each day and spent improving the mind. Novels are excluded from the provinces of the illuminating; instead, we are pointed towards anything we might find educative (though satisfyingly he does recommend Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, saying he never travels without the latter). If we are untou

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This search led me to Mortimer Adler , a philosopher and educator best known for his work on the Great Books movement, a project aimed at defining the essential works of Western civilization. In 1940, Adler published How to Read a Book, a guide to deeper reading that has remained influential for decades. His argument was simple: Most people read pa... See more