We get to live one life. We enjoy, and learn from, one set of experiences.

But there’s a whole world at our fingertips of people similar to us in nature, yet who have had the opportunity to learn and think about vastly different things.

I’ll likely never know what it’s like to be a world-class chess player, but I can learn about strategy and the learning process from Josh Waitzkin.

I haven’t spent the last 30 years studying human psychology, but I can listen to Daniel Gilbert and pick up on the key lessons that he’s picked up through his studies.

I’ll never live in an ancient world, but I can lean on past leaders and thinkers to understand their perspective on the human condition, and how much of that is still relevant. today.

Not to read is to either lack the curiosity to understand the world we live in or to lack the humility to realize that we don’t need to experience everything first-hand.

-Brandon