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Bruce Lee Podcast

#121 Bruce Lee Library - Great Ideas from the Great Books

Bruce Lee Podcast

Shannon Lee

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Bruce Lee had a giant library and read voraciously. He would annotate his books, and it’s evident that these books helped influence his philosophies and approach to living life. We think it’s important to share these books because they help illuminate the process of Bruce Lee becoming himself and how he used the insights gained from his reading and molded them to fit himself.

In this episode we return to the Bruce Lee Library to discuss his annotations of the book, Great Ideas from the Great Books by Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, Director for Philosophical Research, Answers drawn from the wisdom of the past to the problems about which we are most concerned in the world today.

Bruce Lee was a philosophy major in college, so it makes sense that he was in exploration of all the great philosophers in the world. He had a wonderful harmony of Eastern philosophy and Western philosophy.

Check out our full show notes at Brucelee.com/podcast to see what Bruce Lee annotated in this book.

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or it can crash.

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Welcome to the Bruce Lee. Welcome to the Bruce Lee Podcast, a podcast about Bruce Lee and this is

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Hi everyone, this is Shannon Lee.

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And this is Sharon Lee.

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And welcome to the Bruce Lee podcast.

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Hi everybody.

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