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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, All in One Book
Reading this book is like drinking from the firehose of human knowledge and wisdom
It’s crazy to think how wealthy we are in the 21st century.
Wealthy in material possessions (very important, though of course they’re not everything), wealthy in modern conveniences, wealthy in so many ways.
But the true wealth of humanity lies in our greatest ideas, our most enduring wisdom, and our most brilliant minds.
Everything we’ve achieved, everything we’ve hoped for and dreamt about, everything we will actualize in the future started off as an idea in the mind of another human being, and fortunately for all of us, all of that knowledge has been immortalized in books.
Will and Ariel Durant were two of our greatest historians, a husband and wife team who worked for decades on their astounding eleven-volume work, The Story of Civilization.
I haven’t read that one yet, but it’s on my list (yeah, that giant one I keep adding to)!
Another of their (much, much shorter) books is called The Lessons of History, and that one I can highly recommend. I thought it was fantastic.
Tonight’s book recommendation, The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, is similarly incredible, and I’ve written a…
