A quote from Japanese author and Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenko way back in 1330(!) on the value of reading books:
“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
“It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On saying no, the importance of focus, and reading books
“Books for mindset.
Quiet time to think for strategy.
Conversations with successful peers for tactics.”
Quiet time to think for strategy.
Conversations with successful peers for tactics.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the bottleneck to achieving results, the discomfort of growth, and friendship
Who do I spend time with that pulls me up
?
Shane Parrish • 2022 personal annual report
As Seneca wrote:
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.”
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.”
This Is What Comes Next
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
— Edward Gibbon