8. Alan Jacobs: How to Get More Pleasure Out of Your Reading
The Reader's Journey
I've Read the Republic, Right?
Like the great books or like the intellectually challenging books, they require a lot of effort on your part. You've got to be willing to say, wow, that's, this part is really blowing my mind. Or let me get out my notebook and take some notes or, or just reflect on what I've read. And I think that's a great attitude. Especially when you realize a lot of like fairy tales or children books, the best ones have like this deeper meaning in them that you don't really understand as a kid. It's only once you're like an adult, like you fully understand it.
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