Will Schwalbe: On the Love of Reading Books

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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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

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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

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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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2:35.3	we'll offer you additional exclusive content from our guests, as well as one mini episode per month.
2:42.4	And plus, there is no quicker way to feeling better than doing something good. And folks,
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