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What I'm Reading #2 - Dan Koch - "How to Think" by Alan Jacobs

The Long Game

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You Are What You Love

"It's crazy how much of our own thinking is shaped by the people we either choose to associate with or associate with by default," he says. "To dwell habitually with people is inevitably to adopt their way of approaching the world, which is a matter not just of ideas, but also of practices." 'The measure by which you are being used to judge will be impossible because everybody has a different barometer' He adds: 'This shows how complicated the human situation is so it forces me to have more grace for people I disagree with'

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