Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Why read old books over modern ones? Reading Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli will actually give you better tools to navigate the modern world than new works because they reveal the unchanging nature of mankind and historical patterns that still play out today...

5 Easy Classics to Get Started:
thinkingwest.substack.com/p/5-easy-classics-you-need-to-read

Great Books Lists:
thinkingwest.substack.com/p/the-great-books-lists-start-here

01:23 Survivorship Bias
03:45 A Broad Perspective
06:12 Historical Pattern Recognition

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