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Posted on September 29, 2023October 24, 2023

How to Guarantee a Life of Misery

We've all seen commencement speeches extolling the same old hackneyed advice: Follow your dreams! Be the change you wish to see in the world! Remain curious! It's often logical advice that sounds hollow coming from some billionaire tech entrepreneur or a famous Hollywood actor. Easy for you to say. Charlie Munger, the Vice Chairman of …

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by Kyle Brennan

I got this book free for subscribing to Word on Fire, the Catholic media organization founded by Bishop Robert Barron. (Yes, free books are a perk of religious media subscriptions ;) I picked up this book at a Little Free Library near my house. It was short, and it was free, which were basically my only criteria. I decided to flip through it quickly and sure enough, I finished it in a day. The Seven Storey Mountain is Thomas Merton’s account of his conversion to Catholicism. Born in France in 1915 to a pair of artist parents who weren’t especially religious, he spent his teenage years in Douglaston, NY, and eventually landed at Columbia University. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry book review 📚 I get a shit ton of book recommendations. Most I politely file away. You may have noticed my recent turn toward Christianity. Don’t worry, I’m not turning into some Bible-thumbing Jesus freak. But I am more curious than ever, so consider this me following that curiosity wherever it leads. After reading Mere Christianity, I went down the Christian apologetics rabbit hole, which eventually led me to the legendary Timothy Keller. Well, suffice to say, this is one of the best novels I’ve ever read. Just a masterpiece from beginning to end. This place was made for guys like me📚
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