An antilibrary is a private collection of unread books, first mentioned by Lebanese-American scholar and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, 'The Black Swan'

The Antilibrary

The writer of The Swan, Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: <ul><li>Those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?”* </li><li>And a very small minority—who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. </li></ul>

Umberto Eco's Collection of Books

You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.

A Collection Of Unread Books

According to Umberto Eco, a private library is a research tool. The goal of an antilibrary is not to collect books you have read so you can proudly display them on your shelf; instead, it is to curate a highly personal collection of resources around themes you are curious about. Instead of a celebration of everything you know, an antilibrary is an ode to everything you want to explore.

The Antilibrary's Goal

The vastness of the unknown can feel terrifying, which is why many people feel uncomfortable with the idea of accumulating books they haven’t read. But embracing the unknown is what drives discovery. As Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell once said: “Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.” An antilibrary is a reminder of everything we don’t know.

Embracing the Uncomfortable Unknown 

Now I see my massive collection of unread books with a new perspective! 

Unread books are as powerful as the ones we read. An antilibrary is a private collection of unread books capturing the vastness of the unknown.

Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books

Divide your hardbacks and paperbacks for a cleaner and more streamlined look on your bookshelves. It is also helpful if you're a visual person.

Separate your hard covers and paperbacks

If you're a reader who tends to associate certain stories with their covers, stack your books by colours, try an ombré pattern, or opt for a rainbow look.

Arrange your books by colour

Organising by genre and subject makes it easy to find the right book you find interesting. Group together your mysteries, travel memoirs, 18-century English literature novels, cookbooks, etc.

Organize books by genre or subject

The alphabetical organisation is ideal if your collection of books is so huge it’s essentially a mini library. It works well if you remember book titles and author names more than genres and plot points.

Organize your books alphabetically

Gather all the books you haven’t read yet and place them in their own particular To Be Read section, so they don’t get lost among the other titles.

Group together the books you haven’t read yet

Organising your books by contemporary or classic is useful if you have a diverse collection of old and new books. You can define contemporary and classic as you desire, for example, living and deceased authors, books written before and after a certain date, or books published in specific periods.

Separate your books by author: contemporary or classic

Bookstores around the world use this method because it is simple, effective and classic. Group non-fiction books together and keep the other books in another spot.

Separate fiction and nonfiction

Reorganising books in different ways can help you rediscover old favourites or find the ones you've always wanted to read.

You don't need to be a professional librarian to expertly organize your novels, biographies, encyclopedias, and still-need-to-reads

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How to Organize Books: Cool and Clever Tips

Most successful people are people you've never heard of. They want it that way. It keeps them sober. It helps them do their jobs.

Whether what you're going through is your fault or your problem doesn't matter, because it's yours to deal with right now.

Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you're the least important person in the room-until you change that with results.

You're not as good as you think. You don't have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.

With accomplishment comes a growing pressure to pretend that we know more than we do. To pretend we already know everything.

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"Ego Is The Enemy" By Ryan Holiday 

Quotes from "Ego is the Enemy"  by Ryan Holiday 

As in The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday delivers practical and inspiring philosophy, this time exploring a powerful concept that runs back centuries, across borders and schools of thought: ego.Ego is our biggest enemy. Early in our careers, it can prevent us from learning and developing our talents. When we taste success, ego can blind us to our own faults, alienate us from others and lead to our downfall. In failure, ego is devastating and makes recovery all the more difficult. It is only by identifying our ego, speaking to its desires, and systematically disarming it that we can create our best work.Organised into bite-sized observations featuring characters and narratives that illustrate themes and life lessons designed to resonate, uplift and inspire, Ego is the Enemy shows how you can be humble in your aspirations, gracious in your success and resilient in your failures. It is an inspiring and timely reminder that humility and confidence are still our greatest friends when confronting the challenges of a culture which tends to fan the flames of ego and encourage the cult of personality at all costs.

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Ego Is the Enemy

"What you aim at determines what you see."

"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."

"But proper discipline organizes rather than destroys."

"Do you not hide unwanted things in the fog."

"Imagine who you could be and then aim single mindedly at that."

"If you don't say what you think then you kill your unborn self."

"I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil."

"When you have something to say, silence is a lie."

"Create habitable chaos out of order."

"It is much better to make friends with what you do not know than with what you do know, as there is an infinite supply of the former but a finite stock of the latter."

"It may well be, therefore, that the true meaning of life is not to be found in what is objective, but in what is subjective (but still universal)."

"You should be careful, therefore, to live your life fully, and marriage and children and grandchildren, and all the trouble and heartbreak that accompanies all of that, is much of what life has to offer. Miss it at your great peril."

"There is no evidence that the importance of friendship declines in any manner with age."

"What is the moral of the story? Make yourself colorful, stand out, and the lions will take you down. And the lions are always there."

"When you are tightly boxed in or cornered -all too often by your own stubborn and fixed adherence to some unconsciously worshipped assumptions-all there is to help you is what you have not yet learned."

"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."

"I will trust you-I will extend my hand to you-despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me."

"Humility: It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness."

"We outsource the problem of sanity. People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them."

"That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look."

"If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master."

"Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated."

"Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don't have and undervaluing what you do."

"To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell."

"The purpose of life, as far as I can tell... Is to find a mode of being that's so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant."

"If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely."

"Be grateful in spite of your suffering."

"If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future."

"And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of."

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Beyond Order By Jordan B. Peterson

The companion volume to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life. In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes. In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life—from our social structures to our emotional states—Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even—and especially—when we find ourselves powerless. While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. Beyond Order provides a call to balance these two fundamental principles of reality itself, and guides us along the straight and narrow path that divides them.

Beyond Order

This book is written by a life coach, Ely Susanti. This book tell us about:<ol><li>How people make choices in their lives and change their lives through those choices. </li><li>This book teaches us how to be as neutral and rational as possible looking at our own problems so that we can see a way out of these problems. </li></ol>

Overview

Often times, emotions are the biggest reason why problems are so complex and difficult to deal with, just like a fog, emotional feelings often blind the way forward. This book not only shares stories about people with life problems, but also lays out what lessons can be learned from their stories.

Emotions

This book provides a new perspective on the everyday conflicts in my life. The problem solving directed in this book is quite rational and solutive. Problems are described as simpler than initially thought complex.

Novita's Conclusion

"Every choice is right as long as we are ready with the consequences of that choice"

"Jangan pernah berkata pasrah jika belum berusaha. Jangan pula berkata menyerah jika usaha belum menjadi nyata. Sebab, setiap orang punya masalah yang harus diselesaikan. Ely Susanti menunjukkan bagaimana orang bisa menyelesaikan masalahnya dengan life coaching. Bacalah, ambil makna pembelajarannya, dan raih kesuksesan Anda. Salam sukses, luar biasa!” —Andrie Wongso Motivator No.1 Indonesia, pendiri AW Learning Center www.andriewongso.com Kehidupan memiliki banyak persoalan yang harus dihadapi, dan persoalan yang paling besar adalah diri sendiri. Ada memori, emosi, dan pikiran dalam diri manusia yang tidak mudah dipahami. Dengan coaching, Ely Susanti telah membantu orang lain untuk lebih memahami dirinya dan membawa sebuah kesadaran dalam menentukan pilihan-pilihan hidupnya. Buku ini bagus untuk dibaca. —Merta Ada Guru meditasi, pendiri Bali Usada Meditation www.baliusada.com Setiap kisah yang diceritakan di buku Move On sejatinya adalah lembar buku kehidupan sarat makna dan pembelajaran. Kisah jatuh bangun anak manusia dalam upaya menjalani hidup bahagia dan mulia yang sering begitu sulit diraih karena berbagai hambatan, baik yang berasal dari luar maupun dalam diri. Ely Susanti dengan cerdas membantu dan mengarahkan sesama mengatasi masalah mereka dengan berani melihat ke dalam diri, menemukan dan menggunakan sumber daya internal, dan terutama dengan meningkatkan kesadaran diri. —Dr. Adi W. Gunawan, CCH. Indonesia leading expert in Mind Technology Penulis buku Quantum Life Transformation dan The Miracle of MindBody Medicine www.adiwgunawan.com"

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