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Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again
Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again

Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again

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Naval Ravikant
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Mar 10, 2021
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The beginning of infinity reminds me the most of Godel Escher Bach as a book in that is very wide-ranging. It stitches together ideas from a different disciplines. It's very difficult to understand and follow completely
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everyone claims to have read it. But as far as I can tell very few people
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understand it. I had this experience in college where I first found Godel Escher Bach
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and I remember that I put on my bookshelf and I
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started reading it and started reading and started reading it in about a year later. I was probably about halfway through it and then I just ran out of time. I'd other things going
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on and
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I remember that I would
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approach my other friends in college and I would say either this is a great book. You should read it or I would say have you read it and they'd all say yeah, that's great and a week later they'd roll back and say yeah read Godel Escher Bach. It was great and I felt like the stupidest person in college and it was only years later that I realized. Nobody has read it as you get older you get more confident in those confessionals
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where you either say either I didn't read it or I read it at a
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constant pace and when I encountered something I didn't understand it kept going. I went back much later and I still confess to this day. I have not read.
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All of God, unless you're Bach, but at least at this
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point I went through and I found the parts that were most
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interesting to me, which were the Godel parts and skip the ones that were not as interesting to me which were the Baka parts and I did read those and I did try and understand them. The beginning of infinity is similar everybody has it on their bookshelf in my Social Circle many claim to have read it, but very few have gotten it.
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I do go back to this point.
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That was first eloquently stated on Twitter by a character named Ella service where he said I don't want to read all the books. I just want to read the best 100.
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Over and over again and I would say that I'm currently stuck in a loop where at least in science. I am only going to read the beginning of infinity and the fabric of reality over and over again until I understand them fully if I had read them 20 years ago.
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I would know a lot more
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because then I would have chosen the right books in the right authors to read subsequently.
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It's going to be a hard book to follow you
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should buy a hardcover an electronic. So you have both
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and the audio get in every
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way possible. If you can get through it on the first sitting and understand all the points at a deep level than congratulations, but we're hoping
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going to break it down for you.
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