Stop Wasting Your Time On New Books — Read These Old Ones Instead
Why read old books over modern ones? Reading Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli will actually give you better tools to navigate the modern world than new works because they reveal the unchanging nature of mankind and historical patterns that still play out today... 5 Easy Classics to Get Started: https://thinkingwest.substack.com/p/5... Great Books Lists: https://thinkingwest.substack.com/p/t... 01:23 Survivorship Bias 03:45 A Broad Perspective 06:12 Historical Pattern Recognition Join this channel to get access to special perks and support our mission: / @thinkingwest

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