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Been asking myself this question for a while, and have found the following reading to be very enlightening: - Letters from a Stoic, Seneca - On the Shortness
by godzillafarts 6y ago
Been asking myself this question for a while, and have found the following reading to be very enlightening:
- Letters from a Stoic, Seneca
- On the Shortness of Life, Seneca
- Walden, Henry David Thoreau
- Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- lm28469 6y agoI was going to post that, Letters from a Stoic, single best book I read. I already bought it 4 or 5 times and end up gifting it to friends/family.
- andi999 6y agoWhy Grapes of Wrath? Like dont work in a field which changes rapidly and get pushed to the sidelines to die poor in misery?
- godzillafarts 6y agoMore along the lines of practicing altruism even when I perceive things around me to be bad
- tolbish 6y agoThe lesson to be learned from that book is that we can do some cruel things to people we feel are beneath us, but we can also do some beautiful, empathetic things. The lesson to be learned from that book is not "don't be poor".
- adolph 6y ago- This Is Water, Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI