My biggest advice to underachieving students and unhappy people is to read more. It takes time, it is slow, sometimes it is challenging to focus, but it is infinitely rewarding. One can be transported to any place or time and get a deep sense of what anothers experiences are like. I don’t like every book …
I’ve talked to a number of people who are disenchanted with modern media and the low quality of entertainment today. A scroll through metacritic shows you that the press pretends new entertainment is good, but the average viewer disagress. Thankfully, there are still books. If you haven’t read the classics, now is a better time …
It can be overwhelming to plan a big trip. Even as one who greatly enjoys the planning process, I can get fatigued from focusing too long on planning for ten days, one-hundred days for now. It is good to have an outlet that is completely different to refresh yourself. I like to use literature, and …
On Twitter, Adam James Smith has started an every-Friday #ReadQuixote trend where people read Don Quixote chapter by chapter every week of the year (DQ has 52 chapters). I picked up Don Quixote at a thrift shop in Philly years ago, not too far from the Don Quixote statue Spain donated to the City of …
It is always exciting to get an email from a publisher who wants to promote a new book. It wasn’t until about a year into the creation of the Hour of History Podcast that publishers started reaching out to me about new books. Before the pandemic, they would say that a book was in the …