Will Schwalbe: On the Love of Reading Books

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Eric Zimmer, The One You Feed

Buddhism, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Please Support The Show with a Donation Will Schwalbe is an author, entrepreneur, and journalist. He is also perhaps the most delightful, interesting and thoughtful person you've come across in a while. His love of books is infectious and as you know, Eric is a bibliophile himself so when the two talk about books and reading as they do in this episode, the result is one blissful experience. Do you love reading? Did you used to love reading but it's moved out of the spotlight of your life? Have you wanted to cultivate a love of reading? Are you looking for some really wonderful books to read? Are you alive and breathing? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then this interview is for you. He is the author of Thoughts on Reading, Reflecting and Embracing Life, The End of Your Life Book Club and SEND: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better Omax3 Ultrapure go to www.tryomax.com/wolf and try a box for free In This Interview, Will Schwalbe and I Discuss... The Wolf Parable His book, Books for Living, Some Thoughts on Reading, Reflecting and Embracing Life The importance of reading That reading isn't binary That every time we read, we become better at reading How reading can promote empathy How we connect through books The practice of "visiting your books" How he chooses which book to read next The way books can be a bio of your life The primary emotion he has at the beginning of reading a book Live to work vs work to live The freedom to quit The freedom of mediocrity Good being the enemy of great You write the books you need That our devices allow us to rob ourselves of silence How reading is an art The "can't you tell I'm reading" face His favorite books that he's read recently that were written recently Will Schwalbe Links Homepage Twitter Facebook Please Support The Show with a Donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm a very clumsy person and I always read the book I knock over.
0:12.4	Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:17.5	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:24.6	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
0:30.6	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
0:37.3	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. It takes
0:43.8	conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This podcast is about how
0:49.6	other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.
1:09.4	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Will Schwabi, an author, entrepreneur,
1:14.8	and journalist based in New York City. Will is the author of three books and was the former editor-in-chief
1:21.3	of Hyperion Books. In 2008, he founded the recipe site Cookster, which was acquired by McMillan
1:28.0	Publishing in 2014, where he serves as executive vice president. His latest work, Books for Living,
1:35.3	consists of essays about 26 different books that affected the author's life. Among the books
1:40.5	described by Schwabi include Homer's The Odyssey, Herman Melville's Bartleby The Scrivener,
1:46.2	Eby White's Stuart Little, and Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train.
2:10.9	You all pose the question to you for reflection. What actions have you taken to support the things
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