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BinstonBirchill t1_ja4xzhe wrote

I’d suggest reading history and philosophy, literature and probably some psychology. Read widely about the world and it’s people. You may never agree with other people’s views but that’s not really the goal, the goal is to understand other people and live your best life.

Some writers to read over a lifetime, Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, De Tocqueville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Wollstonecraft, Thoreau, Melville, W.E.B. du Bois, James McPherson, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Toni Morrison, Nietzsche, Barbara Tuchman, Zizek among many many others.

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BinstonBirchill t1_ja4zjus wrote

And don’t worry there’s plenty more! I definitely have a western centric list that I at least attempt to rectify but it’s a slow process.

But slowly the pieces begin to fit together, not because of any one book but the accumulation and maintaining an objective view rather than being heavily invested in YOUR view. Just my take.

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