rate my routine /lit/
Sounds like you have Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Rate my description of your mom's Friday night, OP
>BBC: A, BB
>BB: A, BBC
>BBC: A, A, A, A, A
>BB: A, A, A, A, AAAAAAAAAAAAA
>BBC: AAAAAAAAAA
>when /fit/ goes reading
>>7961642
>pop fiction
>genre fiction
>pop nonfiction
Trash imo, but it's your life. As long as you commit to whatever you enjoy doing how can I judge? Personally I'd drop the above categories, hit philosophy harder, and tweak the resulting ratios according to preference and how much nonfiction you can handle before exhaustion.
>read a book
>read another book
rate my routine /lit/
>>7961664
kek
>>7961664
Should add more BIBLE. It should go like : Book, Bible, book, BIBLE, BIBLE, repeat. Don't want to become one of those sinful degenerates right ?! More bible !
>>7961689
I know this is a shitpost but you really should read the entire Bible before you read anything else.
i have routines too so i WANT to like this thread, but its shit
>>7961694
This and don't call it just Bible, it's The One Holy book of the Bible
literary fiction --> philip k dick novel --> literary ficiton
>>7961656
Honestly, I appreciate what the OP's trying to do. To simultaneously read historical nonfiction, popular fiction, and the English literary canon is a daunting and probably impossible task. I'm sort of trying to do it and I get frequently discouraged and unsure of what to read next. Having a plan like this could help.
I wish I had a concise "history of ideas/everything" reading list, but I don't think there's such a thing (concise and comprehensive). #mortalproblems
>>7961742
He'll probably forget most of it. Specialization is the only way to go
If you haven't already read the Bible, do that first. It only takes 100 hours or so. Listen to the audiobook on your commute or something because all of those "academic classics" will probably have biblical references you won't understand.
Once that's done replace all bible books in the cycle with philosophy.
Also where's the poetry fag?
>>7961767
Some of us aren't retarded.
You don't need an encyclopedic knowledge, but you need a holistic exposure.
>>7961801
>but you need a holistic exposure
You actually don't
>>7961808
Wow I had no idea. Here I was, stupidly thinking that learning new things was good for one's intellectual development, but now that I read your post I've seen the light. Thank you.
>>7961815
Nice sarcasm.
>>7961664
so fucking dumb
Classic/Contemporary/Kurt Vonnegut
>>7961742
>a concise "history of ideas/everything" reading list
I want this too
>>7961642
where'd this "dost is for plebs" meme come from? the idiot was better character than jesus
>>7961689
This, except remove book and replace it with prayer.
>>7961963
Jesus wasn't "a character" but God made flesh on earth.
>>7961742 here,
>>7961767
>Specialization is the only way to go
Can you sell me on this? Going full /generalist/, whether or not it's possible, has always been my goal/m.o. Specialization just seems so gross and depressing. But maybe it really is the only way, and I need to reconcile myself to that fact. Help?
>>7961944
The point is you're just spouting a contrarian, unintuitive opinion and trying to sound smart. I'm guessing you're just a Black Swan fag who is looking for justification not to put any work into your education.
>>7961664
clever
>>7962022
Of course specialization is important in your disciplines of choice but to deny the benefits of general education is dogmatic and intuitively incorrect. I don't know if these posters are subscribers to Taleb philosophy and are appealing to the limitations of human knowledge, or just misguided pragmatists whose tunnel vision impair them from seeing the value of exposure.
First, your brain understands things by making connections between abstract ideas. The ability to think about things in different contexts improves your intuition. Second, exposing yourself to many different ideas and facts is intrinsically valuable. If you don't learn these concepts or this information you will never know how beneficial it is for your life.
This isn't about learning everything. This is about building intuition and building an index of recognition so that, should you be required to know something, you can have a better foundation on which to learn it.
Forbes, Scott H. 2003. Holistic Education: An Analysis of its Ideas and Nature. Brandon, VT.
Foundation for Educational Renewal.
Hare, JR. 2006. “Towards an Understanding of Holistic Education in the Middle Years of
Education”. Journal of Research in Education, 5: 301–22.
Miller, R. 1991. “Introduction” in Miller, R. (Ed), New Directions in Education, pp 1–3, Brandon, VT.
Holistic Education Press.
Thompson, JJ. July 1993. “Education in an International Context module”. University of Bath
Summer School.
UNESCO. 1996. Learning: The Treasure Within. The Report to UNESCO of the International
Commission on Education for the Twenty First Century chaired by Jacques Delors. Paris.
UNESCO
>>7961664
At a business dinner trying not to laugh to this
>>7961742
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_important_publications_in_philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_canon
I'm looking through this shit and it's daunting. I think the first is more useful but some of the second is good too.
>>7961666
kek and he only reads the Genesis passages about Sodom.
>>7961742
>>7961902
i have been WAITING for this moment for years.
this man is the greatest historian i have read. he holistically examines everything from prehistory to 1900 using unbiased, clear prose and every discipline under the sun (geology, biology, theology, etymology, etc.). immensely readable—i have learned more about general history from this one book than i have from all other histories i've read combined.
also worth checking out, if you're interested, is "the great divide"—studying human migration patterns and using hard and social sciences to explain the different cultural evolutions of the new and old worlds.
>>7961689
Bible every day
>>7962263
That one's been on my to-read list for a while - Watson also wrote The Modern Mind which I enjoyed immensely, I wonder how both books differ, they seem to have a very similar structure
>>7962022
>>7962095
Let's get real for a moment.
First: We have limited time in our lifes, going 'full generalist' isn't possible anymore, there's too much stuff to read.
Second: You say exposure is valuable, is sure is to an extent, but lets say you spend thousands of hours reading philosophy, how much of that knowledge is valuable to you? how much of that knowledge will you remember after 5 years, 10 years?
Unless your main goal in life is accumulate as much general knowledge as you possibly can, going from book to book in hope to find something valuable is a waste of time.
General knowledge is not valuable in this day and age. Other than personal satisfaction I see no point in reading random stuff, or if you really want, do it when you are 60 years old or something, don't waste your time now.
Making positive life choices is possible without 'holistic exposure', if anything overthinking might happen.
Saying:" Learning new stuff is always good" doesn't consider the time factor which is (arguably) the most important factor in human life.
You can actually do OPs routine for years without running out of books (with the exception of bible books) and what would you accomplish besides some insight and personal satisfaction?
>>7962306
You realize you're on a board about reading, right? We're working under the assumption that you enjoy reading and don't need any external justification for reading.
>>7962332
We are talking about education
>>7961664
Here's my reading plan:
Read a book
>>7962687
edgy
>>7961664
I live for these golden moments on 4chin
>>7962697
Hey I put a lot of effort into my reading plan. I try to have diverse programming in order to ensure holistic information synthesis.
>>7961664
what does this mean
>>7961664
>>7961664
wow
>>7961664
holy shit
>>7961664
>>7961664
>>7962263
Thanks dude, just ordered this. Always slightly leery of history books with a "pop" tint, but I figure, as long as a lot of this information and analysis is new to me, it makes sense for me to be reading. I'll go deeper and more academic once I can read one of these world history surveys and feel pretty familiar already with the content.
>>7961664
the thread had 2IP posters when this was posted. It was OP
>>7963367
It's not even funny
>>7961642
how long does it take to finish one routine? two months?
>>7961664
I don't get it.
>>7963333
surprisingly, there isn't any 'pop' tint to his works like bill bryson or anything comparable. for how wide the range of knowledge is in the book, it's astounding the depth of his analysis.also, nice quads
>>7962276
oh, how was that book? i've had too many nonfiction books clogging up the queue, but needless to say, it's on my to-read list. from the looks of it, they do seem to have a similar outline; i'd say that 'ideas' is more delineated amongst place and time, whereas 'the modern mind' appears to connect outwardly tangential ideas.
>>7963466
cause it's an unfunny samefag
>>7961664
fucking wonderful
>>7963488
Fuck, I'm excited.thanks for pointing out the quads; hadn't noticed
fixed it OP
>>7963796
I mostly agree with this, but there is nothing wrong with occasionally reading extracurricular/informative nonfiction. This would include pretty much any textbook or practical manual in any subject other than lit or phil
What the hell would be Philosophical fiction?
>>7963882
The Stranger?
>>7963882
All real fiction is philosophical fiction. Non-philosophical fiction is schlock.
>>7963882
JL Borges, Greg Egan, Ursula Le Guin, Stanisław Lem, Philip K. Dick, etc.
>>7961664
>>7963882
Rand
