Your brain WANTS action.
It wants to connect the dots, work out truths, and shout EUREKA!
This is how you’re wired.
Our non-curious ancestors didn’t think much of the tiger pawprints, and they died without passing on their genes. Only the curious survive.
BUT your curiosity has been gamed, hacked, and subverted.
The body cannot do without calories, but it can live on junk calories for years. Fast food, sugared drinks, processed sludge. The brain is exactly the same.
The brain cannot do without information, but it can live on junk information for years. Reels, opinion columns, shallow self-help.
But if you listen closely, you can almost hear your body beg for something wholesome, nutritious, energizing.
Your brain’s lament is no different.
But where to find a wholesome intellectual diet? Where to find ideas that energize instead of dull your mind?
Answer: In old books.
Books are like memories. Time spares no trivial memory—or book. Let the years pass and only the significant ones remain.
I’ve been reading old books and sharing insights from them on twitter for 3 years. Now, 17,000 tweets, 250 million impressions, and hundreds of old books later, I’m thrilled to launch:
HIT REVERSE: New Ideas From Old Books
It has 64 chapters. Inside this book you will say hello to Will Durant, Napoleon, Nietzsche, and dozens of other brilliant writers of history. You will learn about:
Modern architecture from an 1981 essay
First love from Napoleon Bonaparte
Human nature from a 2,700-year-old-book…
Your brain will be stimulated. Fired up. Finally fed.
HIT REVERSE in numbers:
75+ old books covered
750+ insights
244 pages
Early reviews are at the end of the page.
- Jash (the oldbooksguy)
Any chance of making this into a physical product? I'll get the digital version, but would much prefer a hard copy.
Great book! Loved it.