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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

148: A Book to Pass the Time

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.940.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Because you need something to break the boredom of marching 300 miles in 10 degree weather to bring three boat thieves to justice... or so I'm told.

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0:00.0

So what do you want to do when you're older, they ask?

0:03.0

What that question again?

0:06.0

If one thinks for sure, it's okay not to be sure.

0:10.0

Because there's education and training in areas you may not have even thought of.

0:14.0

From artificial intelligence, to genetics, to aerospace engineering.

0:19.0

Get the jump on the skills employers are looking for,

0:22.0

with a T-level, apprenticeship or higher technical qualification.

0:27.0

Search get the jump and see what's out there for you.

0:30.0

This is the way I heard it.

0:38.0

In 2008, Time Magazine assembled a list of the 10 greatest novels ever written.

0:43.0

Their methodology was simple.

0:45.0

They pulled 125 literary geniuses and asked them to submit their top 10 picks.

0:51.0

Then, they combined all 125 lists to determine the collective top 10.

0:58.0

At the very top of that list is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, called Anna Karinina.

1:05.0

I happen to own this novel.

1:07.0

In fact, I'm looking at it right now.

1:09.0

It's a big book, 864 pages.

1:12.0

And according to websites that track such things,

1:15.0

the average reader should be able to complete it in 15 hours.

1:20.0

I'm pointing this out because I've owned Anna Karinina for as long as I can remember.

1:25.0

But I've never actually read it.

1:27.0

Because, like you, I don't have the time to read an 864 page book written in 1877.

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