The Benefits of Reading Great Books

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In this video we look at the benefits of great books on our growth and development, and examine how the modern university humanities are corrupting students.
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Books are basically maps of other peoples minds and the questions and ideas which posses them

[academyofideas]

A lot of people are asking for book recommendations. These are 5 of my favourite non-fiction: Restoring Pride, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The World as Will and Representation, Letters from a Stoic, Depth Psychology and a New Ethic. Although if you're just starting with Nietzsche I wouldn't recommend Zarathustra, it can be cryptic.

[deepbrar]

Please make a video of your favorite books

[corystereo]

To anyone interested in learning how to read critically, without utilizing a University, I recommend reading "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler. It was written back when colleges were a lot tougher to get into, so not every adult had the best critical reading skills. It's not a "step by step" list, but an actual book. I first read it 15 years ago, and I still re-read it today. It has helped me tremendously not just with reading, but overall critical thinking--and most importantly, that allowed me to identify and bypass the liberal arts indoctrination when I was a student. I highly recommend it to you all!

[philipmason]

That final quote rings especially true, in my experience: “People who have taught themselves how to live — what to be, what to do — from reading great works will not be overly susceptible to the culture industry’s latest wares. They’ll be able to sample them, or turn completely away — they’ll have better things on their minds.”

[satnamo]

Reading is like thinking with another person’s head. Writing is like thinking with my head. Reading is the most basic intellectual activity that mankind has cultivated thus far. Writing is the most sophisticated activity that mankind has cultivated thus far. Reading and writing: sowing and reaping.

[lancelotdufrane]

Absolutely love books. The smell, feel, print, ... they are an entrance to another world. Old book stores are heaven.

[hikari]

What I remember is that School made me totally hate reading. There, we are almost forced to read books which are sometimes long, complex and most of the time don't match the very diverse interests we all have. Reading these books were often long and exhausting. Add to that the pressure of the homeworks and tests, the educational system made reading books feel like a chore. Now that I finished school, I'm reading way more. The difference is, this time I can choose the books I read based on what interest me at the moment and the internet is useful to know exactly what are the best works on the subjects I want to dig in and to have them delivered at your door in a pretty short time. Today I find myself reading science books, business and marketing books, biographies of great leaders and thinkers etc. I red more books in one single year than during my whole High School life.

[Viriyascybin]

The benefits of watching Academy of Ideas :D

[elementalimpressions]

I'm a grade A bibliophile. Working on building our private library. This is one of the very few channels on YouTube I enjoy anymore.

[TheTariqibnziyad]

I watched countless documentaries, read lot of books, and it was the books that gave me the most precise and general ideas and info, i even re-read some books only to find out that i have became better at reading and understand not only the book but the Autor and finally, myself at some point.

[OneMan-wlwj]

A warning I would of appreciated when I began to read extensively: Most of the people around you are not reading diligently, and the further you progress, the more estranged others will inevitably become as they simply cannot begin to appreciate/nor do most even care to/ the mental cultivation you have been experiencing. Conversations will grow increasingly superficial and given most people's total inability to truly listen, utterly disappointing. Another said it thus:
"For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases in knowledge increases in sorrow."
Proceed with caution...you cannot unlearn things..

[SupaMang]

Hi author,

I like your change to white text over black background. The font and overall look is clean and pleasant to my eye.

Cheers,
A fan

[satnamo]

Without thought, there is no thinker.
Thought is the thinker my self;
Reading is like thinking with another person's head.

[phiswe]

2:04 "A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting." - Henry David Thoreau

[xLovex]

If books are the doors to wisdom, then Academy of Ideas is the light that guide us to such doors. Brilliant work as always, AoI never ceases to amaze.

[majesticdarkhorse]

The man who reads lives many lives, the man who doesn't lives only once! 📖

[raiyanharris]

Notification squad. One of my most favourite channel.

[bookswithbenjamin]

I refuse to date women who prefer TVs to books.


Yes I am lonely.

Edit: I am not lonely in the physical sense but in the mental. I have many friends who do not enjoy to read and we have always have a great time together. I am not pretentious, I just know what I want for when I do settle down.

I want my future wife to understand how much books mean to me. I want her to understand how I can get lost in a library for hours at a time. How whenever I travel, I always find myself in a used book store looking for gems. And how I dream about building a huge home library one day that holds hundreds of my favorite books.

I know what type of person that I am and I look for that same type of energy in people that I want to be close with. I want someone who appreciates the same things that I do and someone that gets that same glint in their eyes when they read something particularly special.