
Ep 58 - How to Make 2023 Your Greatest Reading Year (and Lessons from the Great Books)
Hardcore Literature
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How to Read Video for War and Peace - Victor Frankl
The idea of an overnight success is a fallacy, something that has been packaged up by popular entertainment and sold to us. But overnight successes are typically decades in the making. If you're anxious before public speaking, rather than flee from it or hide it or deny it, you acknowledge it. David Foster Wallace used to do something like this when he was speaking,. And he would begin his talks by essentially after tying up a bandana in order to absorb his perspiration. See how much he could sweat, or he would say, feel free to sweat with me because I'm going to perspire. So he really focused on it. He focused on something that many people would try to flee from
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