Join 📚 Edwin's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Edwin's read, .
However well it feels to be in the A/C house together, regular check-ups are essential. Every six months, you should sit down with your C and carry out a check of the A/C relationship. Any more than that will feel like an extra burden to you, any less and your C will feel that the relationship is one you take for granted. If Othello had had the appraisal form below, Iago would have been putty in his hands.
Consiglieri
Richard Hytner
The challenging tone was new, and so was the feeling that human dignity needed defending against a “subtle” enemy. The seventeenth century would cease to accept Montaigne as a sage; it would begin to see him as a trickster and a subversive. Montaigne’s animal stories and his debunking of human pretensions would prove particularly irksome to two of the greatest writers of the new era: René Descartes and Blaise Pascal. They had no sympathy for each other; this makes it all the more noteworthy that they came together in disapproval of Montaigne.
How to Live
Sarah Bakewell
Not all progress is visible. Not all victories are celebrated.
Just because others can’t see the results doesn’t mean you’re not getting better. Just because someone is ahead of you doesn’t mean you are on the wrong trajectory. Just because no one notices doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter. Just because there is no applause doesn’t mean you didn’t score.
Unconventional and Determined
fs.blog
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise