Leonardo da Vinci and the Pleasures of Reading and Book Hoarding (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_626)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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I discuss the importance of reading in seeking to lead a successful life, and I contextualize this point in owning three different biographies on the great polymath Leonardo da Vinci. Book hoarding can be good! _______________________________________ My book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life is now available for order: https://www.amazon.com/Saad-Truth-about-Happiness-Secrets/dp/1684512603 _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (December 2, 2023) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1637: https://youtu.be/87KWeHGGXUw _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is God Sad on a Saturday evening just came back from my usual
0:08.0	deep dive into a used bookstore to find more books as if I need more books given the huge personal library that I have with many, many hundreds of books yet to be read.
0:19.0	But I wanted to mention a couple of things about the importance of reading and the importance of books and so on.
0:27.3	My last undergraduate class at the semester happened earlier this past week and one of the students came up to me at the end of the class and said can you offer me some advice as to you know how to better myself and so on and I said well I've got three you know key
0:46.3	prescriptions number one read number two read and number three read some of you may have heard me mention in the past, the oft-referenced finding that
0:59.0	the biggest predictor of a child's success is the number of books that are in the home.
1:05.0	In any case, I wanted today to tie that into something that just happened at the bookstore
1:12.7	where I was looking for these gems.
1:18.2	Before I do that, I wanted to,
1:20.1	well, let me just mention it's about Leonardo da Vinci, one of my big heroes for many, many reasons,
1:26.3	but I want to discuss a little passage from, so this is in my latest book, The Sad Truth about Happiness, I really truly would love if you guys would consider
1:38.4	getting a copy. It is such a fun book, so optimistic. So, you you know personal anecdotes ancient
1:44.3	wisdoms contemporary science dealing with happiness well-being and so on which is
1:48.2	something that is particularly apropos as we enter the holiday season. So on page 120 this is in the chapter where I'm talking
1:56.2	about variety as the spice of life and then in brackets sometimes I'm talking about
2:01.0	intellectual variety seeking.
2:03.0	So let me just read you a passage and then I'll link it to my latest book acquisition.
2:11.0	Forgive me.
2:12.0	Back in 2014 I wrote a psychology today column listing the 10 historical figures I would
2:18.3	invite to a party and I asked people on social media to offer their own lists. The two most popular responses
2:25.6	were Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin. Here are mine in no particular order. Charles Darwin,
2:32.0	Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo,
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