Often manifesting as techniques for faster reading, nowadays, there is a mass illusion that reading many books by itself can bring about change into someone’s life. 

Many try to do it as fast as they can ignoring the fact that taking your time to process a book, or even rereading it, is ...

This book is a tribute to books, reading, and continuous learning. Over 100 brilliant and witty essays, filled with fascinating insights, inspiring parables, eloquent quotes from books and readings, precious life lessons, fascinating and rare English words, arcane literary facts. Alexander Atkins...

• The purpose of all our reading and studying is to aid us in the pursuit of the good life. At some point, we must put our books aside and take action. So that, as Seneca put it, the "words become works." There is an old saying that a "scholar made is a soldier spoiled." We want to be both sch...