![]() ![]() ![]() Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore, professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these books have you read?” and the others – a very small minority – who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. ![]() Nassim Nicholas TalebĬharm is the ability to insult people without offending them nerdiness the reverse. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. ![]()
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