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“What stands in the way becomes the way.” Comes from this book I believe and that’s pretty cool :)

Is this entire book just going to be physicists arguing about semantics because I’m starting to not enjoy this

The ‘World Perspectives’ series foreword was very hard to get through lol. Chapter 1 also wasn’t very easy, but after that so far it’s nice :)

I’ve mostly skimmed this one and it’s a great book. Taking my time to read it from front to back! Every day I read a little :).

Reviews look great for this one but my god I’m already having to Google every other word

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This book is in desperate need of some pictures

I don’t know why this book calls to me so. The reviews make it seem like the best book of all time. Idk why I’m starting a 1,200 non fiction book when it takes me forever to read a 400 page book lol. Oh well excited to see what the fuss is all about.

I know this is so stereotypical me but I really like this book lol

I like the point and call method. Gotta be aware of habits if you want to change them!

I hope one that someone is as obsessed with what I say as the author is with Marcus because Marcus can say the most basic sentence and the author will spend 3 pages analyzing everything I swear sometimes he just makes things up

God idk why I force myself to read pre-faces

I’m so stereotypical sometimes 😂😂 reading this makes me laugh cuz I know y’all are like “of course he’d read something like that” but I’m just not judging a book by its cover!!

“It is beautiful to take leave of things. It puts you in a gentle frame of mind. I felt a fondness for the hard chair I was sitting on and for my rustic tumbler, a fondness for the cool, fruity taste of the wine from Alsace, a fondness for each and everyone known to me in that room, for the faces of the drinkers perched dreamily on the bar stools, those disillusioned figures I had long thought of as my brother.”

Getting a bit better but what on earth is happening rn I’m like uncomfy like watching a freak couple

This book is bad I read it at night to help me fall asleep it’s so boring

If y’all saw the amount of notes I’m taking on this book y’all would shoot me man 😂😂 I guess I do like these kinds of books after all!! Sue me!!!

“Those who live for power are destroyed by power, those who live for money by money; service is the ruin of the servile, pleasure the ruin of the pleasure-seeker. Thus it was independence”

God I’m so annoying sorry guys. “The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time.”

I too often judge books like these based on the type of people that I think read them. I also think that the content won’t help me or it will help but could be condensed into 2 pages blah blah. Well the point is I have always judged without actually reading them, so I am going to challenge myself to not judge a book by its cover! Lol

I HATE this book so far mannnn goddd damn it but aye I’m gonna challenge myself to push through

Évariste Galois has such an interesting back story with math but my god he was like the most unlucky person ever 😭😭

“I didn’t even think about trying to prove it. Andrew Wiles was probably one of the few people on earth who had the audacity to dream that you can actually go and prove this conjecture.”

Idk why but I love when people do things even if everyone else says it’s impossible

Funny how at first I thought Penrose tilings were not really worth attention and then they talked about how useful they are. Goes to show not to judge something too quickly!