It seems like it's still useable via the way back machine. Just have to put your link in and find a snapshot of whichever date that they have available that you'd like.
There was a backup link at the end of the wiki page for downloading most the charts. Getting the backup link using the wayback machine is a viable option for downloading all the charts at one, since wayback machine can be slow at times and downloading individual charts can be cumbersome.
Bibliographies and Further Reading sections of books are a really good place to get curated reading lists. You can start with a general overview book like one from the "Oxford Handbook of..." or "A Very Short Introduction to..." series. And then you can add the Bibliographies and Further Reading Lists to your TBR. As you go through those books, they will also have their own bibliographies and sometimes Further Reading sections too, which you can likewise add to your TBR. Etc. and so on. So, it's like each book you read starting from the general overview offers a curated list of reading material to dive deeper into the topic at hand
I want to suggest the “A very short introduction” series of books by the Oxford university press. Each book is very small and they give you a a brief introduction to a topic, architecture to zoology. There are so many books on a single topic and you often do not know where to start. So I always start with these books and then decide to see if I want to read further on this specific topics. This is also great for those who have a wide range of interests!
Really great video. Very much the opposite from my experience of "Education made reading not fun" to be reminded that "Reading can make education fun again".
I love to learn but it is more than reading. I want a deep dive into what, where, who, how...etc...Such as if I want to learn physics - where do I start? I need to get my math skills better but I am good at addition, subtraction but I want to learn more - where do I start. I get overwhelmed. I am also over 60 years old so it is not easy like it would be if I were in my 30's or so.
If I were in your shoes, I'd start with youtube. I'd probably begin with school-level video courses, finish those and then progress to harder and harder video series. I'd probably throw in textbooks and regular books after that basic stage too
Khan Academy is probably your best spot to start for an academic subject like that. They have Middle school physics under the science section. Same with math! That being said I'm sure there's plenty of high level physics books that you could read without needing to understand the math 100%.
You could go on google and look up “high school algebra syllabus” or “high school physics syllabus” etc that way you could learn in the same order that most of these things are taught. Then maybe get a notebook and write the timeline out and what you’re going to focus on in that timeline based off the syllabus’s you find.
Having been homeschooled this method is comfortable for me, a bit similar to how my mom cultivated our reading lists. I graduated from university in 2020 and i’ve been wanting to take history and literature classes again but I don’t have the funds to do so. I want to gain a basic understanding of the history of the Byzantine Empire. I will try this structure out.
Each video you're making gets better and better, honestly! Such a joy to watch. I really appreciate that you took the time to do an example run of this process, helped tremendously!
Two thoughts: 1. Be humble enough to start your search with a jaunt through the Wikipedia articles on your interest area. For many fields, this gives you an excellent outline of a field--e.g. cosomology--and many of the articles are written by highly qualified indiviuals. 2. Know the structure of most academic writing: The core ideas are in the first three chapters, and the last three chapters are usually fluff or idiological, not based on research, facts, or reason.
1 Pick a topic/goal (or question you want to answer) & how long you want to take to achieve this. 2 Do research into the books necessary to achieve this goal. Meta-learning, scope out the subject. The number of books is relative to the goal and length of the goal. 3 Find the books using different tools such as Google & GoodReads & RUclips Recommendations (ChatGPT & Gemini are also useful). 4 Refine the book list (go through reviews, etc., in Adlerian steps, do an Inspectional Read of everything… Find out if it's truly useful). Also order them into a useful sequence for the syntopical reading project. Highlight the topics covered, how difficult they are, relevancy, etc. 5 Order the books (or download them) ------ Reminds me a bit of Scott Young's Metalearning step, and doing a skill decomposition in van Merriënboer et al.'s 10 Steps to Complex Learning ------ Warm regards, Mr. Hoorn
love this! and also for anyone watching who isn’t getting the newsletter yet, I’d super recommend it - they’re fun and informative and actionable. really been enjoying them a lot
Great process! I started my reading list for much the same reason you did, I had interests but not much knowledge to accompany them. I use a Notion database to store my reading list as well as the notes I take when I read. You can make a database as simple or as complicated as you like but my headings are name, type (article, podcast, video, book), status, link and tags. Each note itself gets a simple template for with headings for people (authors/people featured), quotes, the notes themselves, and related notes. My reading list is entirely nature/human history based, anything from volcanos to archaeology to trees to climate. I don’t have a specific goal for all this reading but if I do decide that for the next few months I’d like to learn more about e.g. animal migration, I can filter my list by tags. It’s been working really well for me and I find not only do I actually know and retain more, but I am making connections within all the various things I read.
I think reading lists are great and can be super broad at the same time which is something you point out, what is amazing about this is how structure and discovery actually go together well.
Great video. I've wanted to read about ethics, particularly animal ethics, for a while. This video motivated me to build my first reading plan. I added books and articles to keep things more fun.
as i'm well versed in economics. the "at large scale" you told chatGPT is called macro-economics. but there also value in micro-economics, because it deals with the small details of economic activity. and can also be of greater value to your personal life. just make sure you choose the right topics. i recommend game thoery, information theory, Behavioral Economics, welfare economics, the theory of contracts
My reading plan as always been no plan. Reading allows me to indulge my vast number of interests. But as a Pastor I recently wanted to read more theological academic works. I started with the books already on my TBR that mer that criteria. I also reached out to a University that had a Masters of Theology and asked for their reading list. I won't follow it completely but provides a good source of books I can draw from
Thanks man. You literally made me fall in love with reading. I binged through most of your videos, and they have really helped me read books more efficiently and analytically ❤
Love this. I have been reading whatever intetested me for the last 10 years. I would just read a book, and it would lead me to another and so on. I have learned alot of many areas, but never had a focused study.
One of the most coherent, valuable, straight to point synthesis I've seen. Congratulations on your 100k subscribers milestone! Wish you one more digit to that number!
Great insight here, especially the emphasis that its a personal reading plan, and we should treat it that way. My 2 cents here : Like arranging and selecting books, we can do the same with actual chapters inside a book. Many times I found a chapter more relevant or not relevent at all for a given learning goal. 2- With the books we can also add articles or video
Thank you I have been wanting to get back into reading. I have watched so many booktuber videos and have added books to my list to read but haven’t actually started reading them yet. I love this idea of creating a Reading Plan and creating a goal, what do I want to learn about, that’s the first question I need to answer. So thank you for this video, you have just gained another subscriber because of this video.
Great video! I recently started reading the Great Books of the Western World set, you can read them for free from Internet Archive (it’s the 1st edition), and volumes 2&3 (out of 54) are a brilliant syntopicon, i.e. they list the great ideas (love, God, etc) and tell you which great books (and additional reading) from the set covers those ideas from all through history! Saves a lot of time putting together a reading list if you’re interested in certain topics from across the classics of the western tradition…
Here's a book recommendation for economics: The Creature from Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin. It talks about the Federal Reserve, but goes so far into background that you end up understanding much on economics that on the surface might not seem related to the subject of the book. It also does so in a very structured way, although it does get into the spicy conspiranoical stuff a bit soon, so I'd recommend keeping some suspension of disbelief until the author gives further context and information that validates the stuff he's saying (which he does, and very effectively). It's a fun book, and you seem open-minded enough. (Only good luck finding a physical copy)
Wow, you are opening my eyes, I didn't know there was such lists. I've always used my intuition to know what to read after. It's good to know they exist even if not really complete (many ignore Seneca for example! Seneca!) so I will use the list of great works of wester civilization as base that I would improve
I enjoy reading and know I could get better at it, as I’m pretty random. This is a great video and much needed. Hadn’t thought of a ‘plan’ of interest or of how to create one. Thank you. Shall be looking at goodreads later.
Great video. This video and your one on mini essays has inspired me. I’m taking a break from school and during this time I’m going to try and go through all of the important books of Modernist literature and write a mini-essay/ review for each one. I hope it builds my understanding
Love this video. Thank you for the inspiration! This has reminded me that I wanted to create a master list of world literature that is universally considered to be classics. (School reading lists are very different between say Russia and the US).
started re reading the books I read a couple of months ago because I couldn't remember anything I read. can you make a video on how to properly take notes when reading and how to remember for the long run. thanks Odysseas edit: checked your profile, and for anyone wondering Odysseas has a full playlist on how to improve your reading so I will give that a go !
If you want some Roman History, try Velleius Paterculus hes not that big but has the Battle of Teutoburg Forrest in his book and the battles of Germanicus (father of Caligula) in it, if you get the Loeb version you get also the Testament of Augustus written by himself😁
Thank you for the video and tips! It was really useful. I'm interested in many topics and I always want to learn more about them but finding what to read is so overwhelming
I'm homeschooled ,but the only problem is lack of structure (still better than learning pointless things at schools) and your videos have been really helpful!! Ive just started watching but i can tell this video is going to be really helpful. Currently, Im trying to learn the Trivium and then Quadrivium before i have to focus more on learning for exams, although i know its going yo take a long time. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience!! :)
This reminds me of the ‘SMART’ criteria for goal setting, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and time-bound. It’s especially helpful if you have multiple interests. I wonder how such a reading list can help with a practical application of your knowledge, like if your reading goal includes more STEM-centered learning. Because as much as I like theories, I’d love to apply what I learn lol
A clever system! I think the application comes form within the book itself, maybe plucking out the practical points and reserving time in between books to practice them.
@@arsenalfanatic09 I also think it helps to have something similar to ‘check-ins’ with yourself, maybe in monthly intervals, to make sure you’re actually progressing with your topic. Kinda like how we have mid-semester exams as recaps.
Follow-up...I made my comment about midway through the video, and I saw that you had that book in your list. So, just one thing I would add is that Hazlitt himself was pretty much self-educated in economics, so that might make it more relatable for someone teaching themselves the topic.
Another way we can find great books in the niche we want is to see the reference section, most books include it or has further reading list, which will more authentic
This video has inspired me to do an experiment. I am going to create a full on curriculum, with everything that a curriculum has: Q&As, grades, etc (i will need to figure out how to do that effectively but it will be fun) and my reading plan will be divided into semesters (each semester will be focusing on a specific aspect of whatever topic i am researching. Let’s see how well i can do that 😂
I'm trying to learn some maths topics that aren't covered in my degree. I was drawn to this video because I'm just lost. Just the textbooks available in the uni library, its a staggering ammount of choice. I think this is the sort of thing I need to start making.
Great video. Love your content. By no means an economic expert, but one book I found very interesting was Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. Contrary to the title, it's not intended as a one-and-done book, but rather, a good overarching volume on the topic, and he gives a great list of recommended books.
You talking about ChatGPT reminds me of when I asked it to recommend me Italian/Croatian songs and it started making up songs & artists that were either not Italian/Croatian or that just didn't exist lol.
Do you use any other tools except Books and Obsidian in your self study? If yes then make a video on it or on the best resources to self study well like ‘How to read a book’
I find a lot of lusts on the internet and Goodreads just show what are the most popular or well known books on a subject or in a genre. That doesn't mean they are necessarily the best or most well-respected amongst true subject matter experts. If you can find an expert person it is great to ask them for recommendations. Especially someone who has read outside of or thinks critically about the canon on any given subject. You could also look up bibliographies or resources used in books you respect, course reading lists on online MOOCs taught by professors.
It's fine to read just for the sake of the enjoyment or to increases your general knowledge. But for younger people (less than 50 YO), a reading plan can be used to support your personal objectives. So, what are personal objectives? Below, I've listed "categories" of objectives. (There are not objectives, themselves.) This is a very exhaustive list that I created 3-4 years ago. I've yet to come across a personal objective that doesn''t fit into one of the categories. So, look the list over to get you started on making a list of your personal objectives. Most likely, you will have 3-5. Then, develop a reading plan that will supprt your objectives. * Personal / Professional Relationship * Physical / Health Condition * Mental / Intellectual Condition * Emotional / Psychological Condition * Spiritual Condition * Wealth / Financial Condition * Security / Safety Condition * Fame / Reputation * Power / Influence * Skill / Capability * Possession / Property (Things you have / own) * Location / Place (Where you primarily reside)
Great video well said and explained. So far my goal was making my handwriting good and legible, something that is admirable to read. Its not much about reading books but it has it''s process. Now I have watch possible all your videos I see your evolution talking about the subjects you pick. Do you have a list of books or recomentations for that?
Thanks, and that's a good skill to reach for. I don't have a 'best of' list, but these are some of the books I've read: www.goodreads.com/review/list/137374625-odysseas?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=read
I love the idea of a Liberal Education. The Latin "Libertas" means freedom. Thus a liberal education is one for a free person. Not liberal in terms of politics. I have and read The Great Books from Encyclopedia Britannica and the University of Chicago edited by Adler and Hutchins. As I follow World and US events, using The Economist and other quality sources, I deep dive into various subjects that they bring up. I have a wide range of interests and am a believer in being well informed rather then attempting to go too deeply. That also depends on what I find as I dive in. Thanks, read on
Hi Odysseas, are there any books you would consider or recommend while beginning to have kids? Looking for thought provoking ones. I'd love to hear your thoughts
Are you thinking books to directly improve how you raise them, or ones that teach you values to be a good parent in general? It sounds weird, but I think books on anthropology are useful. 'The Naked Ape' by Desmond Morris opened my eyes to modern parenting differs so vastly to how our ancestors did it -healthy habits we've abandoned, and old values we've forgotten. Really interesting stuff, and I'm sure a lot of it can be applied today.
@@odysseas__ not a self-help book, but something that's thought-provoking. The equivalent would be reading "A walk in the woods" while doing the Appalachian trail, or reading "Zen and the art in of motorcycle maintenance" while touring on a motorcycle across the country. Thinking of this, there should totally be a directory matching these books to activities.
@@jbruell94 I can't say anything comes to mind if I look at it like that, I'm afraid. I did do some research and found these though, which looked interesting at first. Not sure how good they truly are though. 1. Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon 2. Troubled by Rob Henderson 3. Educated by Tara Westover 4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 5. The Oedipus Plays by Sophocles (I have read this and there are strong family themes)
I love the cup, titmouses are my favorite birds 🤣 also I am having trouble wrapping my mind around writing notes for this one book on the history of vertebrates. The first chapter goes heavy into groups such as kingdom, phylum, subphylum, etc. In school I had no issues just writing it down and just coming back to it, however, it's different when trying to implement it into notes for my vault. How do you think I should aproach this?
Thanks! Maybe an overview note for each taxon, which touches upon each part briefly, then you can make separate linked notes to expand on the ideas you care about more.
Hey, I have been a follower of the channel since the begginings. Your work on the platform is the best motivational content I have seen, but I think that you skipped over one of the most fundamental book to read on your journey to become a polymath. "Art of Memory" by Yates is on pair with "How to Read a Book" and I have to recomend it. Keep up the great work and best of luck
Great and super helpful video as always! Thank you very much! Could you please also make a video about your schedule in Google Calendar? I did mine using Proton Calendar. This is basically 99% the same. But I never watch it, never do anything according to schedule. I have no idea how you do it 😢
Thanks, really appreciate it. That's a good idea, so I will -of course, in a way that isn't guru-like and unrealistic. I don't like the micro-managing a lot of them recommend.
Hi. Ive a question. Is it necessary to focus on one subject at a time? For ex if i want to have a basic understanding of bio and deeper understanding of Islamic Philosophy, can i do both together or keepinh one at a time would be good??
I think it depends on how much time you have available. If it was limited, I'd focus on one heavily until switching to something else. Otherwise, it can be refreshing to have many.
Hey mate, love the videos. Just wanted to ask have you ever thought about branching out into other traditions (ex. Islamic, Buddhist, Chinese, Hindu) personally I love western philosophy but feel that it heavily lacks without other cannons that often have a completely different view and methodology. Lmk if you want some cool writers/texts
Do you like to do a complete read through of a book before inputting your notes and ideas into Obsidian or do you write into Obsidian as you are reading?
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It's a shame, but the wiki has been shut down. I'll make an update if I rediscover anything similar.
Yes, please do
It seems like it's still useable via the way back machine. Just have to put your link in and find a snapshot of whichever date that they have available that you'd like.
There was a backup link at the end of the wiki page for downloading most the charts. Getting the backup link using the wayback machine is a viable option for downloading all the charts at one, since wayback machine can be slow at times and downloading individual charts can be cumbersome.
@@captainnemo8713 thank you both for your responses
@@SebastianKettle-eu1rd Completely overlooked this somehow, thank you
Bibliographies and Further Reading sections of books are a really good place to get curated reading lists. You can start with a general overview book like one from the "Oxford Handbook of..." or "A Very Short Introduction to..." series. And then you can add the Bibliographies and Further Reading Lists to your TBR. As you go through those books, they will also have their own bibliographies and sometimes Further Reading sections too, which you can likewise add to your TBR. Etc. and so on. So, it's like each book you read starting from the general overview offers a curated list of reading material to dive deeper into the topic at hand
Great point!
I want to suggest the “A very short introduction” series of books by the Oxford university press. Each book is very small and they give you a a brief introduction to a topic, architecture to zoology. There are so many books on a single topic and you often do not know where to start. So I always start with these books and then decide to see if I want to read further on this specific topics. This is also great for those who have a wide range of interests!
tbh, school has killed my thirst for knowledge long time ago but i am reviving my passion for knowledge by watching videos like these
Really great video. Very much the opposite from my experience of "Education made reading not fun" to be reminded that "Reading can make education fun again".
Thanks, love to hear that!
I love to learn but it is more than reading. I want a deep dive into what, where, who, how...etc...Such as if I want to learn physics - where do I start? I need to get my math skills better but I am good at addition, subtraction but I want to learn more - where do I start. I get overwhelmed. I am also over 60 years old so it is not easy like it would be if I were in my 30's or so.
If I were in your shoes, I'd start with youtube. I'd probably begin with school-level video courses, finish those and then progress to harder and harder video series. I'd probably throw in textbooks and regular books after that basic stage too
mathacademy is a great resource for adult learners to get their math skills up to undergraduate level.
Khan Academy is probably your best spot to start for an academic subject like that. They have Middle school physics under the science section. Same with math! That being said I'm sure there's plenty of high level physics books that you could read without needing to understand the math 100%.
Thanks y'all 😅
You could go on google and look up “high school algebra syllabus” or “high school physics syllabus” etc
that way you could learn in the same order that most of these things are taught.
Then maybe get a notebook and write the timeline out and what you’re going to focus on in that timeline based off the syllabus’s you find.
Having been homeschooled this method is comfortable for me, a bit similar to how my mom cultivated our reading lists. I graduated from university in 2020 and i’ve been wanting to take history and literature classes again but I don’t have the funds to do so. I want to gain a basic understanding of the history of the Byzantine Empire. I will try this structure out.
I'm also interested in that subject😅 what have you thought of reading first?
I like how raw your videos are. The editing is clean but unobtrusive
Thanks, I don't like the flashy stuff either
This is one the most useful and unpretentious book channels on RUclips. Keep up the great work! & thank you.
Thank you, really appreciate this
Each video you're making gets better and better, honestly! Such a joy to watch. I really appreciate that you took the time to do an example run of this process, helped tremendously!
Thanks, real grateful to hear this
Just wanna say, you've been a massive inspiration for me. I appreciate your craft and look forward to seeing more of your journey!
Thanks, and I wish you all the success!
Two thoughts:
1. Be humble enough to start your search with a jaunt through the Wikipedia articles on your interest area. For many fields, this gives you an excellent outline of a field--e.g. cosomology--and many of the articles are written by highly qualified indiviuals.
2. Know the structure of most academic writing: The core ideas are in the first three chapters, and the last three chapters are usually fluff or idiological, not based on research, facts, or reason.
lmfao i read academic writing for school and #2 is just plain wrong
1 Pick a topic/goal (or question you want to answer) & how long you want to take to achieve this.
2 Do research into the books necessary to achieve this goal. Meta-learning, scope out the subject. The number of books is relative to the goal and length of the goal.
3 Find the books using different tools such as Google & GoodReads & RUclips Recommendations (ChatGPT & Gemini are also useful).
4 Refine the book list (go through reviews, etc., in Adlerian steps, do an Inspectional Read of everything… Find out if it's truly useful). Also order them into a useful sequence for the syntopical reading project. Highlight the topics covered, how difficult they are, relevancy, etc.
5 Order the books (or download them)
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Reminds me a bit of Scott Young's Metalearning step, and doing a skill decomposition in van Merriënboer et al.'s 10 Steps to Complex Learning
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Warm regards,
Mr. Hoorn
Nice summary, thank you
love this! and also for anyone watching who isn’t getting the newsletter yet, I’d super recommend it - they’re fun and informative and actionable. really been enjoying them a lot
Thanks, always grateful for your support
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Cheers man, I appreciate that!
Great process! I started my reading list for much the same reason you did, I had interests but not much knowledge to accompany them. I use a Notion database to store my reading list as well as the notes I take when I read. You can make a database as simple or as complicated as you like but my headings are name, type (article, podcast, video, book), status, link and tags. Each note itself gets a simple template for with headings for people (authors/people featured), quotes, the notes themselves, and related notes.
My reading list is entirely nature/human history based, anything from volcanos to archaeology to trees to climate. I don’t have a specific goal for all this reading but if I do decide that for the next few months I’d like to learn more about e.g. animal migration, I can filter my list by tags. It’s been working really well for me and I find not only do I actually know and retain more, but I am making connections within all the various things I read.
This video is the reason the internet is an amazing place you have no idea how much this video is helpful to me thank you so much
Grateful to hear this, thank you
I think reading lists are great and can be super broad at the same time which is something you point out, what is amazing about this is how structure and discovery actually go together well.
Great video. I've wanted to read about ethics, particularly animal ethics, for a while. This video motivated me to build my first reading plan. I added books and articles to keep things more fun.
Thanks, and that's good stuff. I also love different forms of media thrown in.
as i'm well versed in economics. the "at large scale" you told chatGPT is called macro-economics. but there also value in micro-economics, because it deals with the small details of economic activity. and can also be of greater value to your personal life. just make sure you choose the right topics. i recommend game thoery, information theory, Behavioral Economics, welfare economics, the theory of contracts
I am truly grateful for this video/content. Thank you!
Thanks, appreciate it
My reading plan as always been no plan. Reading allows me to indulge my vast number of interests. But as a Pastor I recently wanted to read more theological academic works. I started with the books already on my TBR that mer that criteria. I also reached out to a University that had a Masters of Theology and asked for their reading list. I won't follow it completely but provides a good source of books I can draw from
That's cool to see, and a good idea I forgot to mention.
*Today my exams got over and this couldn't have come at a better time!*
Thanks Bro! ❤
What a relief.. glad to hear it, thanks
You have "Life of Christ" by Fulton Sheen on your shelf. This reminds me to finish reading it. This channel just keeps on delivering!
I read that book when I was 16 and It had a very profound effect on me. Totally worth the read!
Thanks man. You literally made me fall in love with reading. I binged through most of your videos, and they have really helped me read books more efficiently and analytically ❤
Really appreciate it, and that's brilliant to see -onwards and up
Really appreciate it, and that's brilliant to see -onwards and up
Love this. I have been reading whatever intetested me for the last 10 years. I would just read a book, and it would lead me to another and so on. I have learned alot of many areas, but never had a focused study.
One of the most coherent, valuable, straight to point synthesis I've seen. Congratulations on your 100k subscribers milestone! Wish you one more digit to that number!
Much appreciated, that's nice of you to say. Wish you well in all that you do.
20:51 Dont buy all the books, get them free from the library
Also valid
Great insight here, especially the emphasis that its a personal reading plan, and we should treat it that way. My 2 cents here :
Like arranging and selecting books, we can do the same with actual chapters inside a book. Many times I found a chapter more relevant or not relevent at all for a given learning goal.
2- With the books we can also add articles or video
Thanks, and I agree. I love to use different forms of media especially, to keep it fresh.
I love your take on learning. It is very inspiring. Thank you for sharing. ☺️
I appreciate it, thank you
Thank you I have been wanting to get back into reading. I have watched so many booktuber videos and have added books to my list to read but haven’t actually started reading them yet. I love this idea of creating a Reading Plan and creating a goal, what do I want to learn about, that’s the first question I need to answer. So thank you for this video, you have just gained another subscriber because of this video.
I love this. Exploring the bibliography in the back of a book you love is a good place to go as well
Thanks, and that's a great point
Great video! I recently started reading the Great Books of the Western World set, you can read them for free from Internet Archive (it’s the 1st edition), and volumes 2&3 (out of 54) are a brilliant syntopicon, i.e. they list the great ideas (love, God, etc) and tell you which great books (and additional reading) from the set covers those ideas from all through history! Saves a lot of time putting together a reading list if you’re interested in certain topics from across the classics of the western tradition…
Thanks, and I totally agree. It scratches an itch for all those lofty ideas.
@@odysseas__ ps your newsletter is fantastic!
Hi, can you share the links please.
Thanks!!
@@Felipe-fz9gj can't share links by here, do a search!
Can’t share links, do a search!
Here's a book recommendation for economics:
The Creature from Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin. It talks about the Federal Reserve, but goes so far into background that you end up understanding much on economics that on the surface might not seem related to the subject of the book. It also does so in a very structured way, although it does get into the spicy conspiranoical stuff a bit soon, so I'd recommend keeping some suspension of disbelief until the author gives further context and information that validates the stuff he's saying (which he does, and very effectively). It's a fun book, and you seem open-minded enough.
(Only good luck finding a physical copy)
Wow, you are opening my eyes, I didn't know there was such lists. I've always used my intuition to know what to read after. It's good to know they exist even if not really complete (many ignore Seneca for example! Seneca!) so I will use the list of great works of wester civilization as base that I would improve
I appreciate it, and yes it definitely needs some refinement to make it perfect for you.
Your videos are very informative, thank you.♥️🇿🇦
Really appreciate that, thanks
I enjoy reading and know I could get better at it, as I’m pretty random. This is a great video and much needed. Hadn’t thought of a ‘plan’ of interest or of how to create one. Thank you. Shall be looking at goodreads later.
Thanks, and some random is fun sometimes -whatever suits your style. Best of luck.
Great video. This video and your one on mini essays has inspired me. I’m taking a break from school and during this time I’m going to try and go through all of the important books of Modernist literature and write a mini-essay/ review for each one. I hope it builds my understanding
Nice, I bet it will -thanks too
Dude only drops BANGERS.
Cheers man
Love the effort you put into this!!
Thanks!
Love this video. Thank you for the inspiration! This has reminded me that I wanted to create a master list of world literature that is universally considered to be classics. (School reading lists are very different between say Russia and the US).
Thank you, and that's a brilliant plan. I'd love one that's as close to perfect as possible, even if it's hard to judge what that means.
Much of the reading list I have made came simply from looking at the bibliography of the books I really enjoyed.
started re reading the books I read a couple of months ago because I couldn't remember anything I read. can you make a video on how to properly take notes when reading and how to remember for the long run. thanks Odysseas
edit: checked your profile, and for anyone wondering Odysseas has a full playlist on how to improve your reading so I will give that a go !
I love this idea!! Thank you!
Thanks!
Favourite channel!!!!!
Thank you
I saw Rothbard on your reading list, so I am officially subscribing
Great Books of the Western World was also a great mention. I started and stopped a few years ago. Stopped at Sophocles, so I have quite a ways to go.
Would like to suggest Leonard Peikoffs history of philosophy lecture series
Insightful as always ❤
As a bird enthusiast, I love your mug.
Always nice to see a fellow bird appreciator
couldn't have made the video better myself, genuinely reinforced everything I (and I'm sure others) have been feeling lately
Thanks, really appreciate this
If you want some Roman History, try Velleius Paterculus hes not that big but has the Battle of Teutoburg Forrest in his book and the battles of Germanicus (father of Caligula) in it, if you get the Loeb version you get also the Testament of Augustus written by himself😁
Helpful and inspiring🙏 ur doing priceless work🙏🌠💗
Thanks, real grateful you liked it
Thank you for the video and tips! It was really useful. I'm interested in many topics and I always want to learn more about them but finding what to read is so overwhelming
Choosing is one of my least favourite parts of reading. I appreciate it too, thanks!
I'm homeschooled ,but the only problem is lack of structure (still better than learning pointless things at schools) and your videos have been really helpful!! Ive just started watching but i can tell this video is going to be really helpful. Currently, Im trying to learn the Trivium and then Quadrivium before i have to focus more on learning for exams, although i know its going yo take a long time. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience!! :)
That's cool to hear, must be a totally different experience to the one I know. Best of luck!
@@odysseas__ Thank you! Wishing the best for your projects too!! 👍
Great and valuable content, as always.
Thanks, I appreciate it
Incredibly cool thank you so much💗🌠
Beautiful video, thank you very much
I hope this finds the perfect audience
Thanks, always appreciated
This reminds me of the ‘SMART’ criteria for goal setting, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and time-bound. It’s especially helpful if you have multiple interests.
I wonder how such a reading list can help with a practical application of your knowledge, like if your reading goal includes more STEM-centered learning. Because as much as I like theories, I’d love to apply what I learn lol
A clever system! I think the application comes form within the book itself, maybe plucking out the practical points and reserving time in between books to practice them.
I'm definitely going to use that SMART system moving forward, it's a good tip.
I need to start adding time deadlines to my goals I think.
@@arsenalfanatic09 I also think it helps to have something similar to ‘check-ins’ with yourself, maybe in monthly intervals, to make sure you’re actually progressing with your topic. Kinda like how we have mid-semester exams as recaps.
congrats on 100K subscribers!!
Thanks!
Thank you this was helpful ❤
Cheers, hope it serves you well
Follow-up...I made my comment about midway through the video, and I saw that you had that book in your list. So, just one thing I would add is that Hazlitt himself was pretty much self-educated in economics, so that might make it more relatable for someone teaching themselves the topic.
Cheers, and that's a good point I completely missed. Even stronger choice in that case.
Another way we can find great books in the niche we want is to see the reference section, most books include it or has further reading list, which will more authentic
Definitely, it's a natural next step
just found your page from obsidian vid and am bindging
Thanks! Hope you enjoy
Thank you
Much appreciated!
i'm so glad i got to subscribe to your channel
Cheers, I appreciate it
This video has inspired me to do an experiment. I am going to create a full on curriculum, with everything that a curriculum has: Q&As, grades, etc (i will need to figure out how to do that effectively but it will be fun) and my reading plan will be divided into semesters (each semester will be focusing on a specific aspect of whatever topic i am researching. Let’s see how well i can do that 😂
Sounds bold, I like it. Best of luck.
I'm searching for a method to map my reading list and visualize that like minute 3:11 anyone could help?
I'm trying to learn some maths topics that aren't covered in my degree. I was drawn to this video because I'm just lost. Just the textbooks available in the uni library, its a staggering ammount of choice. I think this is the sort of thing I need to start making.
It's a lot at first, but I hope you can narrow it down through the research. Best of luck.
Great video. Love your content. By no means an economic expert, but one book I found very interesting was Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. Contrary to the title, it's not intended as a one-and-done book, but rather, a good overarching volume on the topic, and he gives a great list of recommended books.
I’ve been unintentionally doing this my whole life. Life with ADHD man.
You're so helpful, thank you
I appreciate it, thanks
You talking about ChatGPT reminds me of when I asked it to recommend me Italian/Croatian songs and it started making up songs & artists that were either not Italian/Croatian or that just didn't exist lol.
Yep.. it doesn't know what it's doing half the time.
I started at age 20. Yay. No regrets
That's great, lots of potential
@@odysseas__ you reply and care abt your viewers. That's what I like the most abt u
@@h7jwss It's the fun part -least I could do! Cheers though.
Thats crazy, i subbed to this channel when it only had 1k subscribers
Do you use any other tools except Books and Obsidian in your self study? If yes then make a video on it or on the best resources to self study well like ‘How to read a book’
I do, and that's a good idea. Mainly videos and articles, or whatever else I find on the topic.
I find a lot of lusts on the internet and Goodreads just show what are the most popular or well known books on a subject or in a genre. That doesn't mean they are necessarily the best or most well-respected amongst true subject matter experts. If you can find an expert person it is great to ask them for recommendations. Especially someone who has read outside of or thinks critically about the canon on any given subject. You could also look up bibliographies or resources used in books you respect, course reading lists on online MOOCs taught by professors.
Great advice!
Sir now please guide us about writing because most of us are struggling with it ,also please guide me how to do research on any topic betterly.
Definitely good topics to cover
Mike Mintzer proved a bodybuilder can also be a scholar.
THIS IS TREASURE FOR ME AS SOMEONE WHO NEVER HAD ACCESS TO BOOKS AND READING AND IS FINDS JOY IN LITERARY I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH SIR GOD BLESS 🙏🏻 🙏🏻
Love to hear it, thank you
It's fine to read just for the sake of the enjoyment or to increases your general knowledge.
But for younger people (less than 50 YO), a reading plan can be used to support your personal objectives.
So, what are personal objectives? Below, I've listed "categories" of objectives. (There are not objectives, themselves.) This is a very exhaustive list that I created 3-4 years ago. I've yet to come across a personal objective that doesn''t fit into one of the categories.
So, look the list over to get you started on making a list of your personal objectives. Most likely, you will have 3-5.
Then, develop a reading plan that will supprt your objectives.
* Personal / Professional Relationship
* Physical / Health Condition
* Mental / Intellectual Condition
* Emotional / Psychological Condition
* Spiritual Condition
* Wealth / Financial Condition
* Security / Safety Condition
* Fame / Reputation
* Power / Influence
* Skill / Capability
* Possession / Property (Things you have / own)
* Location / Place (Where you primarily reside)
I do a mix of both the two approaches
That's my favourite too
Bro this video is superinformative
@@johnjabez6300 Cheers man, glad you liked it
I check saw your follower number... I can say you really deserve them
Great video well said and explained. So far my goal was making my handwriting good and legible, something that is admirable to read. Its not much about reading books but it has it''s process. Now I have watch possible all your videos I see your evolution talking about the subjects you pick. Do you have a list of books or recomentations for that?
Thanks, and that's a good skill to reach for. I don't have a 'best of' list, but these are some of the books I've read:
www.goodreads.com/review/list/137374625-odysseas?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=read
I love the idea of a Liberal Education. The Latin "Libertas" means freedom. Thus a liberal education is one for a free person. Not liberal in terms of politics. I have and read The Great Books from Encyclopedia
Britannica and the University of Chicago edited by Adler and Hutchins. As I follow World and US events, using The Economist and other quality sources, I deep dive into various subjects that they bring up. I have a wide range of interests and am a believer in being well informed rather then attempting to go too deeply. That also depends on what I find as I dive in. Thanks, read on
Much appreciated, and that's an impressive feat too
Hi Odysseas, are there any books you would consider or recommend while beginning to have kids? Looking for thought provoking ones.
I'd love to hear your thoughts
Are you thinking books to directly improve how you raise them, or ones that teach you values to be a good parent in general?
It sounds weird, but I think books on anthropology are useful. 'The Naked Ape' by Desmond Morris opened my eyes to modern parenting differs so vastly to how our ancestors did it -healthy habits we've abandoned, and old values we've forgotten. Really interesting stuff, and I'm sure a lot of it can be applied today.
@@odysseas__ not a self-help book, but something that's thought-provoking.
The equivalent would be reading "A walk in the woods" while doing the Appalachian trail, or reading "Zen and the art in of motorcycle maintenance" while touring on a motorcycle across the country.
Thinking of this, there should totally be a directory matching these books to activities.
@@jbruell94 I can't say anything comes to mind if I look at it like that, I'm afraid.
I did do some research and found these though, which looked interesting at first. Not sure how good they truly are though.
1. Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon
2. Troubled by Rob Henderson
3. Educated by Tara Westover
4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
5. The Oedipus Plays by Sophocles (I have read this and there are strong family themes)
I love the cup, titmouses are my favorite birds 🤣
also I am having trouble wrapping my mind around writing notes for this one book on the history of vertebrates. The first chapter goes heavy into groups such as kingdom, phylum, subphylum, etc. In school I had no issues just writing it down and just coming back to it, however, it's different when trying to implement it into notes for my vault. How do you think I should aproach this?
Thanks! Maybe an overview note for each taxon, which touches upon each part briefly, then you can make separate linked notes to expand on the ideas you care about more.
@@odysseas__ awesome I’ll try this out, thank you!
@@vincentking4618 You're very welcome, best of luck
Hey, I have been a follower of the channel since the begginings. Your work on the platform is the best motivational content I have seen, but I think that you skipped over one of the most fundamental book to read on your journey to become a polymath.
"Art of Memory" by Yates is on pair with "How to Read a Book" and I have to recomend it.
Keep up the great work and best of luck
Thanks, I appreciate this and I'll add it to the list!
this is great, I would suggest asking LLM for help on a reading and learning plan
Thanks, but what's LLM?
@@odysseas__ I think what he meant by LLM was large language model, so basically an ai such as chatgpt.
I need to use a discovery phase, because I have to many interests and I need to know hownto connect them all or where to start my deep dive😅
Good luck, hope you can clear things up
Great and super helpful video as always! Thank you very much!
Could you please also make a video about your schedule in Google Calendar? I did mine using Proton Calendar. This is basically 99% the same. But I never watch it, never do anything according to schedule. I have no idea how you do it 😢
Thanks, really appreciate it. That's a good idea, so I will -of course, in a way that isn't guru-like and unrealistic. I don't like the micro-managing a lot of them recommend.
What brand of notebook are you using in this video?
Unfortunately the wiki has been closed, anyone know of alternatives?
Yeah I see now, that's annoying. It says something about saving the files so I'll have a play with that
Hi. Ive a question.
Is it necessary to focus on one subject at a time? For ex if i want to have a basic understanding of bio and deeper understanding of Islamic Philosophy, can i do both together or keepinh one at a time would be good??
I think it depends on how much time you have available. If it was limited, I'd focus on one heavily until switching to something else. Otherwise, it can be refreshing to have many.
Hey mate, love the videos. Just wanted to ask have you ever thought about branching out into other traditions (ex. Islamic, Buddhist, Chinese, Hindu) personally I love western philosophy but feel that it heavily lacks without other cannons that often have a completely different view and methodology. Lmk if you want some cool writers/texts
Thanks, and I plan to in time. Just starting with the western stuff because it's where I'm from and what I relate to the most.
@@odysseas__ that sounds great!
Do you like to do a complete read through of a book before inputting your notes and ideas into Obsidian or do you write into Obsidian as you are reading?
The former. Otherwise it would be too interrupting.
very nice video thank you
Cheers, I appreciate it
love this video & your channel! you remind me of my former classmates @ U. Chicago. where did you earn your degrees?
Thanks, really appreciate that. I got it from UCC in Ireland
If you haven't, please deeply look in to Eastern Orthodoxy. God bless you!
i like your mug. uh, yeah the video's great too! 😅
Haha cheers, it's my favourite
Me, watching this to plan a deep dive into the TV series Twin Peaks.
Can you tell where you got that vertical book holder/reader? Thx
Btw, first time here. Subscribed! Very good content!
Thanks -I don't remember the exact model, but Etsy and Amazon have loads if you search 'wooden book stand'
@@odysseas__ thx!!