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These 3 Books Changed My Entire Perspective On Life
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” — Mortimer J. Adler
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4 min readFeb 25, 2025
Some books entertain.
Some books educate.
Some books turn your whole world upside down, throw you into another dimension, and change your entire perspective on life.
Here are 3 of them books…
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
On the Shortness of Life is a moral essay written by the one and only Seneca.
Death is a subject we avoid thinking or talking about because we are led to believe that it’s a depressingly sad subject to discuss.
However, death, and On the Shortness of Life urgently remind us of the importance of one of our most invaluable, non-renewable resources: Time.
In many respects, it’s only after we understand how limited our time is, that we can begin to understand:
- How much time we waste.
- How many things we put off.
- How much time we spend living in the past or the future instead of the now.
- And the time we spend worrying about things, ultimately, will never matter.
