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Why You Must Build a Deep Bookshelf.

We know that if we can lift the weight easily, we're not getting stronger.

We know that if we eat the same few foods over and over again, we won't get the vitamins and nutrients we need. We know that if we shelter a person, especially early on in life from different bacteria or viruses, they'll never develop the necessary immunities and may well find themselves stricken with many allergies.

Should the mind be any different than the body? The author and entrepreneur Luke Burgess and recent Daily Stoic podcast guest has written often about the tendency to read books we enjoy by writers we agree with.

Most people as we've talked about recently look for mirrors. Their bookshelves are full of books that reflect back what they know and believe.

That's what I call a thin shelf Burgess writes what we want to build is a deep shelf as you continues. Republicans should be reading books by Democrats and Democrats should be reading books by Republicans.

Atheists or agnostics should read books that challenge them Christians should read docks, telebians should dabble and pinker.

Cross over into the enemies camp, Senaqa wrote deliberately read and immerse yourself into the thinking and the strategies of those who disagree with not as a deserter.

And he would have liked epitetus's line that you can't learn that which you think you already know even if epitetus were an epicurean. So read and study like a scout go into the enemies camp build a deep bookshelf challenge yourself vary your diet expose yourself to new and foreign influences.

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