This made me think of one of Haruki Murakami's quotes saying “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
I wish I could read more xddd it's extremely hard for people to be reading too much nowadays... Reading requires one's full attention, but now with TH-cam, Netflix, social media and etc people just can't focus!
I think I needed more, but this IS from his "Essays and Aphorisms", so maybe there wasn't much of a developed, air-tight argument being made: imma still read a lot.
"Reading too much" is definitely rarer than "reading too little" in my opinion but I agree that it is an absolute necessity too think for yourself over just mindlessly absorbing information like a robot. I think reading is great IF constantly coupled with reflection, analysis, critical thinking and drawing conclusions independently. As I recall, another philosopy TH-camr (Weltgeist), also talked about this topic from Schopenhaur's and Nietzsche's perspective. I'll leave this here for those wanna check these out: Nietzsche's perspective of reading too much th-cam.com/video/IZeMERGDwKg/w-d-xo.html Schopenhauer's perspective th-cam.com/video/LCTHrBC2zSw/w-d-xo.html
This made me think of one of Haruki Murakami's quotes saying “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Taking time away from the books to foster reflection is a MUST - great point & video structure, nice progression!
I wish I could read more xddd it's extremely hard for people to be reading too much nowadays... Reading requires one's full attention, but now with TH-cam, Netflix, social media and etc people just can't focus!
Great idea, lovely angle to take. Deserves more views!
I read for several hours every day. Currently reading " The Magic Mountain " by Thomas Mann.
This is great!
I think I needed more, but this IS from his "Essays and Aphorisms", so maybe there wasn't much of a developed, air-tight argument being made: imma still read a lot.
"Reading too much" is definitely rarer than "reading too little" in my opinion but I agree that it is an absolute necessity too think for yourself over just mindlessly absorbing information like a robot.
I think reading is great IF constantly coupled with reflection, analysis, critical thinking and drawing conclusions independently.
As I recall, another philosopy TH-camr (Weltgeist), also talked about this topic from Schopenhaur's and Nietzsche's perspective.
I'll leave this here for those wanna check these out:
Nietzsche's perspective of reading too much
th-cam.com/video/IZeMERGDwKg/w-d-xo.html
Schopenhauer's perspective
th-cam.com/video/LCTHrBC2zSw/w-d-xo.html
I haven't read a sentence of literature since high school.
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Is being told to think for yourself and then doing it ,really thinking for yourself?
Now that's thinking for yourself
Talking about reading, what are some books you can recommend?
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham.
I read er'rydayyyy
Nice depiction of Toon Schopenhauer.
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Once a month
Don't read