“Do not just read, memorise or imitate, but so that you realise the principle from within your own heart study hard to absorb these things into your body” - Miyamoto Musashi
Personal take on Books- I prefer revisiting the top hundred books to fully grasp their content over attempting to read every book available. Our brain's capacity is finite. Many books contain irrelevant content, so I focus on reading to quench my genuine intellectual curiosity. Rather than reading sequentially, I skim for intriguing ideas, delve deeper into them, and move on once satisfied.I don't track much book’s now, its ideas and understanding. I try to list some.
2023
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- ''He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. '’
- “I didn’t know sharks had such handsome, beautifully formed tails.”
“I didn’t either,” her male companion said.
Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on
his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about
the lions.
**Man's Search for Meaning-**Viktor Frankl
- meaning in space-time domains (micro-macro, up-down ,zoom in -zoom out), dynamic meaning
- “Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
Man's Search for Meaning | Andrew Huberman and Lex Fridman
2024
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson