being "independent" (not tied down) sounds like freedom, but you're not really free to be ambitious until you marry, because before that you're forever on the prowl to do stupid shit and chasing girls and having parties.
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And if you weren't you could focus on things that are important beyond tonight's entertainment. (and focusing on where the party will be tonight, every night, ultimately gets you nowhere). So if you want to build things with your life, then take it seriously (and get married).
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This is a VERY small scene in the book, and its not a complicated sentiment to convey. But it had a big effect on me and shaped my views on marriage (and therefore the trajectory of my life) 1000% more than parents or peers.https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1182342847661576192 …
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Simon Sarris @simonsarrisThe benefits of marrying earlier (than currently fashionable) seem very underrated. The earlier you do, the more advantages compound. It's not a final thing you do, like graduation. It's foundational. If you get it right, marriage means having a co-founder for each other's life.Prikaži ovu nit1 reply 0 proslijeđenih tweetova 11 korisnika označava da im se sviđaPrikaži ovu nit -
Anna Karenina had bigger influences on me for other reasons (Levin's conflict of alienation), but its things like this anecdote, usually, that stay with me from books. The author makes to me in some passing comment some remark that remains.
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The more you read one author, the more you realize they are turning around these ideas in their mind, in their works, trying to study them, or just look at them. Most of them, I think, never quite get to the point where they can clearly say the thing it is they want to say.
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So it's not a book per se but the author that influences, and following them book to book, trying to catch the thread, which I almost never catch, I think maybe they almost never catch, the best I can do is stand there and look in the direction with them.
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And I want to find them and ask them, but they're almost always long dead. So instead you have to find people who read the same books, then maybe you don't have the same experience. The best you get is this kind of eye contact, a reassurance, from the people who read what you did
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to actually answer Jessy's question as best I can, There are lots of books changed how I think about the past. Some: The World of Yesterday The Origins of Political Order Seeing Like a State (James Scott) Against the Grain (Scott) Reflections on the Revolution in France
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In general, if you want to learn about the past, biographies and books of letters are often more insightful than 99% of history books. The more you read older correspondence, the more you realize something today is missing, or absent, though it is not easy to articulate what.
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The most clear example of a single book is probably Tamar Adler's book An Everlasting Meal (which I recommended to a few people in the other thread). It fundamentally changed how I think about food day to day. I think
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For fiction, almost all of it changes my view of the world, in some way. I think fiction is much more interesting and more powerful than non-fiction. We are storytelling animals and we forget that at our own peril. (And, I think, we often forget it).
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This is so true - one of my favs is Steinbeck's East of Eden. Significantly changed how I saw my life - five years later, still think of it in hard times. Thank you for the rec! :)
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