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Sarah Bakewell on Humanism and The Power of Connection

The Daily Stoic

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The Importance of Interplay in Reading

The great conversation as they call it is the The interplay or the exchange between the author and the reader. that's really important because I think too often people see reading as a one way conversation. If you're not disagreeing with the people that you're reading You're either reading the wrong books or you're not reading aggressively enough Yeah, exactly. It's uh, I think uh montane compared it to a tennis match So it's like writer and reader. Oh, you know in a conversation in an exchange And yeah That's beautifully said Uh, although tennis didn't uh Wasn't the kindest game to the montane family? No, it wasn't no and it was

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