Introduction & Email Course Outline - "What to Expect"
• Introduction to the Email Course and What You Can Expect to Learn
• Why Reading Great Books is Different from Reading Everything Else
Day 1: The Most Important Things To Know
• Great Books Deal With Perennial Questions (Not Trendy Topics)
• Conversations with Books and Other Readers is the Key (The Socratic Way)
Day 2: Mistakes Many People Make
• Reading too Many Books, too Quickly (Not Information Consumption)
• Being Discouraged by the Difficulty: It's Not Too Late to Make a Second-Sailing
Day 3: Preparing Yourself for the Long-Haul
• Choose Any Great Book, Maybe a Short One for Starters
• Clear Away Distractions -- Attentiveness is Key
Day 4: 3 Simple Upgrades To Your Reading Practices
• From Highlighting To Good Questions
• From "Getting Through It" to "Living With It"
Day 5: Best Practices Moving Forward
• Prolong the Perceptive Mode of Reading
• Join a Reading Community like Symposium Institute!
Odysseus and the Sirens