@Culture_Crit I took my wife to Paris in July and it was wonderful. I would move there if I didn’t have family here. There’s a bad side to everything. It’s too bad that people look for that and post it in the comments.
A glimmer of hope from higher ed! 100+ profs at Yale have joined @FacultyForYale, demanding the university "rededicate itself to its fundamental mission: to preserve, produce, and transmit knowledge."
I spoke to @NAChristakis for the @nypost:
nypost.com/2024/02/20/us-…
7 Tips that will increase your motivation to read:
• Find your WHY
• Read with a friend
• Read in the morning
• Create a reading space
• Use temptation bundling
• Do your best to not miss twice
• Set an implementation intention
Humans alone are capable of acting with reason and virtue. To do what only we can do, and to do it well, leads to our greatest good – happiness.
This is the main idea from Aristotle’s first book of Nicomachean Ethics .
Let’s play a poetry game.
What do you think Emily Dickinson meant when she said:
Tell all the truth but tell it slant…
A few questions:
1. Who or what is “all?”
2. What is included in “truth?”
3. How would you define “slant?”
Some think that Nietzsche was somehow connected to the Nazi party.
This is false. Some of his closets friends were Jewish. He had a fallout with Richard Wagner who was anti-Semitic.
After his death, Nietzsche’s sister used his writings to create harm.
🌞Good morning, readers.
📚What are you reading to start your day?
🏃♀️A good book sets you in motion.
📸 Share your reading pics below.
🔥I’m digging into The Happiness Hypothesisby Jonathan Haidt.
Sometimes this is hard to do because we don’t know ourselves. One of the benefits of being a reader is that you get the opportunity of asking, “What am I interested in?”
Your genuine curiosity with take you to the right books.
Ask yourself, What is something that I want to learn?
Search for books related to that topic and start reading.
So the right books can help you learn skills that will pay you off in the long run.
I’ve been a camel my whole life.
In September, when I stepped away from the Mormon church, I did so because I was loaded with other people’s baggage and beliefs.
I’ve lived as a lion now for five months and it’s exhilarating, but I have more work to do.
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