Welcome to another Friday! Here’s a list of things I
explored in the past week.
1: What I Read:
Fallen Leaves: '
Candide: '...meet an ‘old worthy’ man who tells them of the cure of living a ‘good enough’ life: ‘cultivate your own garden’. In this message, everything isn’t philosophized to be for the best, but everything instead is lived with simplicity. Labor, says the old man, preserves men from three great evils: tedium, vice, and poverty.'
2: Article On Reading Fewer Books:
How To Read Fewer Books – ‘The more we understand what
reading is for us, the more we can enjoy intimate relationships with a few
works only. Our libraries can be simple.’ This article rids us, the readers, of
the pressing pressure of reading more and more books. It does so by presenting
some simple goals of ‘tasteful readings and rereading of few books’. For the
readers, a must read!
3: Some Thoughts On Numbers…
My views continue to be ever changing on how much
should one, in particular I myself, read. I managed to finish four books in the last week, which seems shocking to some, but most of them were very small books.
Our world, and unfortunately reading too, have been reduced to being communicated in numbers only;
and I find it unjust. I wish we could change the habit and desire of speaking of the books in mere numbers to the content of what we read, learned, understood.
Such a discussion on books, which doesn’t start and finish on numbers, would
much justify the books and its eternal wisdom.
4: Dan Gilbert On Happiness:
Gilbert, a psychologist famous for his studies on happiness,
in this talk presents three conventional sources of happiness that our mothers
have always told us of: marriage, money, children. But ‘what our mothers didn’t
tell us’, Gilbert tells us through his persuasive and insightful research
result. Funny and very informative – do check it out!
5: This Week’s Quote:
So wisdom may come as the gift of age, and seeing things in
place, and every part in its relation to the whole, may catch that full
perspective in which understanding pardons all. -Will Durant