“Mortimer Adler and Van Doren's How to Read a Book, which is a great guide on serious reading. They consider the case of people who often have difficult or demanding books on their bedside”
Books mentioned in Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail
From Dwarkesh Podcast · 2023-07-12
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“table. So these are kind of aspirational, like, “Oh, I wish I could read King Lear. I want to be the kind of person who reads King Lear.” You put it on your bedside table and people”
“we’ve gone through a book called Cell Biology by the Numbers, which says all of these things like, how big exactly is a nucleotide? Like how much volume does it take up? It's kind of helpful”
“But it's much less demanding on what William James calls the Energies of Men, which is something like a life force that permits you to act according to your will or something like that. Maybe it's”
“philosopher named John Dewey, and he has a lovely book called Experience and Education, sort of written near the end of his time, looking back on all of his efforts to reform schooling in”
“a link to the Amazon page of Crime and Punishment. That kind of stuff is harder to do. Yeah, you're right. He's leaning more on his past explanations, which is interesting,”