The Great Taking By David Rogers Webb
Its a free download or read online if your interested.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. I'm really enjoying it. It is filled with theories about evolution and it is really helping me see bigger picture. My 9th house Jupiter digs that. History was not my best subject but this guy's writing makes the factual information super digestible.
Yikes! 😳
'Chaos'
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the History of the Sixties (Tom O'Neill)
My Life In Advertising.
The author was born in 1866, this book was published in 1917. Apparently he routinely worked until midnight. Parents both college educated but he was not impressed, generally speaking.
He says in the preface, when you spend in an insane amount of time doing something... you learn all kinds of things other people don't know. As he got older. he thought he should right for the people who will follow him. I relate to this, clearly.
This books strikes me on many levels. People are so different today, but I spent all that time with, Henry, born in 1900, this mindset and this ability to write and to reason is familiar to me.
Apparently, what this man teased out, on his own, is still being used today.
He says at one point, you can learn more about is business, by talking to a farmer for two hours, then you could going to college for a year. 95% of people lived in poverty... it did not matter what rich or privileged people thought.
@allie120 he was an innovater with exceptional abilities, which he cultivated. Tremendous ability to discern risk and reward, in his area.
People today, are socialized against living this way, and this was true in his day as well. He was to be a preacher? Both parents college educated, grandfather presided over a college, but he went his own way.
I relate to this. Becoming an astrologer is not acceptable. I also work insane hours, because I like it. I can also do unimaginable things with astrology, due to my extreme focus on it, for my lifetime. I know that tweaks people, but it's true, as people who work with me know. There is such a thing as an expert's expert.
You get to this level, by dedicating your life to something, which has nothing to do with 8 hours a day. It is so very hard to follow your true path. Reading of others who have done it, helps.
Ps, I wish I had his chart. People like this... you can always see it in the chart.
Oddly, even wiki gives two different birth dates for him -- Jan 14 and April 24!?
@elsa Reads like very Capricorn energy to me. I think the Earth signs have this work, focus, discipline thing going on. Taurus, very work orientated. Today I was thinking how Uranus in Taurus is what's been effecting how people work, the changes we've seen since 2018. Virgo too, getting satisfaction from work.
@sophiab I agree. Super pragmatic. But also super interesting how you might be 20 years old today - read this book written by someone born in 1866 and BAM! All the sudden, you know exactly how to get traction.
He also mentioned, he naturally worked, due to his mother's Scotch blood, but love of work can be cultivated.
This is another lost concept. People need to un-screen themselves, to see what they can do. Exit Plato's cave!
@elsa This looks very fun to read. My dad is also a son of a Scotch mother and is steeped in the same kind of conservatism. I've heard of Ogilvy, and apparently this is where he got his play book - I never would have known. My mom is into marketing and I'm going to ask her if she has read this.
I’m reading The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman.
My books finally arrived in store and I collected them today (very excited):
The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk (recommended by Soup in the nutrition thread 😊)
The Vagus Nerve Reset by Anna Ferguson
Can’t wait to start them later tonight!