Episode 4: Why You Should Read Fewer Books!
07/15/23 • 28 min
📑 SUMMARY OF THE EPISODE 📑
In this episode, I talk about why you should read fewer books. The obsession with “quantifying wisdom” needs to stop.
We are going to look at 5 tips that, as a Philosophy PhD student and as a student of life, have proved to be insanely helpful!
Tip #1: Read about what is bothering you.
Tip #2: Read books to be changed, not just to get more information.
Tip #3: Study to discover truth, not to confirm preconceived ideas.
Tip #4: Pick the right book for the right season.
Tip #5 Create a space for learning in your life.
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⏰ TIMESTAMPS⏰
00:00:00 – Brief description of the episode
00:05:06 – Tip #1: Read about what is bothering you.
00:09:22 – Tip #2: Read books to be changed, not just to get more information.
00:14:31 – Tip #3: Study to discover truth, not just to confirm preconceived ideas.
00:18:46 – Tip #4: Pick the right book for the right season.
00:23:42 – Tip #5 Create a space for learning in your life.
00:26:15 – Summary of the episode
00:26:50 – Description of next episode: Andrew Tate and the decline of masculinity
00:27:40 – Socials, products, and goodbye
📖REFERENCES📖
Thomas J. Stanley; William D. Danko: The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
Hector Lavoe – “Te quiero de gratis”/ “I love you for free.”
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📑 SUMMARY OF THE EPISODE 📑
In this episode, I talk about why you should read fewer books. The obsession with “quantifying wisdom” needs to stop.
We are going to look at 5 tips that, as a Philosophy PhD student and as a student of life, have proved to be insanely helpful!
Tip #1: Read about what is bothering you.
Tip #2: Read books to be changed, not just to get more information.
Tip #3: Study to discover truth, not to confirm preconceived ideas.
Tip #4: Pick the right book for the right season.
Tip #5 Create a space for learning in your life.
It means a lot when you give like and share the posts or videos with everybody. I want to do this long term, and it will be only possible with your support! Thank you so much!
⏰ TIMESTAMPS⏰
00:00:00 – Brief description of the episode
00:05:06 – Tip #1: Read about what is bothering you.
00:09:22 – Tip #2: Read books to be changed, not just to get more information.
00:14:31 – Tip #3: Study to discover truth, not just to confirm preconceived ideas.
00:18:46 – Tip #4: Pick the right book for the right season.
00:23:42 – Tip #5 Create a space for learning in your life.
00:26:15 – Summary of the episode
00:26:50 – Description of next episode: Andrew Tate and the decline of masculinity
00:27:40 – Socials, products, and goodbye
📖REFERENCES📖
Thomas J. Stanley; William D. Danko: The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
Hector Lavoe – “Te quiero de gratis”/ “I love you for free.”
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📖 GET MY BOOK 📖
The book is in academic writing, however it is not too technical.
Amor y Resentimiento: Una respuesta a los ataques de Nietzsche contra el cristianismo (Spanish Edition) - Available on Amazon in Kindle and Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Carlos-Santos-Aguirre/dp/B0BMSKNDJ7/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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Episode 3: Key Principles when Navigating the Stages of Moral Growth
📑 SUMMARY OF THE EPISODE 📑
In this episode, I talk about the principles to navigate the 4 stages of moral growth.
Quick recap of the 4 stages: simplicity, complexity, perplexity, and harmony.
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⏰ TIMESTAMPS⏰
00:00:00 – Brief description of the episode
00:02:15 – Principle #1: avoid the myth of moral neutrality
00:08:56 - Principle #2: avoid binary thinking
00:12:38 - Principle #3: avoid careless deconstruction
00:16:17 - Principle #4: avoid fake harmony
00:23:21 – Recap of the 4 principles of navigation
00:24:35 - Connection with the next episode
00:25:13 – Socials, products, and goodbye
📖REFERENCES📖
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: the making of modern identity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989. Pg. 98
Hector Lavoe – “Te quiero de gratis”/ “I love you for free.”
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Episode 5: Movie Review - Barbie
📑 SUMMARY OF THE EPISODE 📑
In this episode I do a raw review of the Barbie movie. I discuss many topics about feminism, patriarchy, role of women, and Ben Shapiro’s critique of the Barbie movie. Here you have the parts:
1. Expansion of identity: from motherhood to womanhood”
2. The crisis of Barbie as the deconstruction of “the perfect woman”
3. The reconstruction of Barbie as “pure human potential”
4. War of the sexes: Patriarchy or Matriarchy?
5. Where do we go from here? Beyond feminism
6. A word to my right-wing friends and Ben Shapiro’s critique of the movie
📖REFERENCES📖
Marx: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_conflict
Ben Shapiro’s critique of the Barbie movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynU-wVdesr0&ab_channel=BenShapiro
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Philosophy in Real Life - Episode 4: Why You Should Read Fewer Books!
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so I have a confession to make which is an opinion that might not be popular but I do believe that most of the best selling books could be summarized into one chapter because there's so much fluff and so today I would like to discuss why you and I and everybody should read fewer books but better books and I would like to share my experience as a philosophy PhD student with ADHD oh yeah I have that problem too a lot of brokenness going on but you know do not despair be
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