Long Read: The Big Book

Chris Jones | 40 minutes

Photo by Álvaro Serrano on Unsplash

Robert Caro has spent thirty-eight years writing the biography of one man. The fourth volume of that work, like its three predecessors a giant achievement and certain best seller, is about to be published. But Caro is not done. The world and all that's in it has changed, and still Caro is not done. Time has eaten everything around him, and still he is not done. But until he is done, one part of the world that we will never see again will not die.

Snippets

When our role model is far away, we continually praise them and draw comparisons between ourselves and them whenever possible.
But when our model is close – if they’re our peer, or coworker, our neighbour, or even a family member – we do the opposite. 

- Alex Danco, Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard

From him, I learned that the process of learning is like falling in love with a song. Initially, you’re only attracted to songs that move you emotionally.

- David Perell, How Learning Happens

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