Hardcore Literature

Ep 67 - How to Create a Powerful Daily Reading Practice


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Timestamps:

  • 0:00 a powerful morning reading practice
  • 2:00 on staying consistent with your habits
  • 7:00 how I structure readings of scripture
  • 8:00 my meditative reading of Moby Dick
  • 9:00 reading imaginative literature scripturally
  • 10:00 speed-reading vs subvocalisation
  • 11:00 on rereading resonant passages
  • 12:00 theatre of the mind & simple contemplation
  • 13:00 imagination, empathy, applying the senses
  • 14:00 threefold present & eternity in the text
  • 16:00 mindfulness in our everyday lives
  • 17:00 future as string of present moments
  • 19:00 good material for the reading practice
  • 20:00 from Aurelius to Rilke & Tolstoy
  • 22:00 how the practice differs from reading
  • 24:00 how Virginia Woolf read great literature
  • 25:00 why I love reading difficult books
  • 26:00 reading as conversation & act of love
  • 27:00 the ease and joy of the daily practice
  • 28:00 the four steps of my reading practice
  • 32:00 practice walkthrough with Tolstoy
  • 33:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage One
  • 39:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Two
  • 45:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Three
  • 48:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Four
  • 52:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Five
  • 56:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Six
  • 59:00 let us know about your practice
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