Terry Whalin has some interesting stuff on reading and what can be achieved in a year with small efforts!
Here
This in particular scares me:
* If you read five books on one subject, you are one of the world’s foremost leading authorities on that subject
That would make me one of the world’s foremost leading authorities on failed love affairs.
a pleasing thought, but must be a real stastic of averages
statistic – i meant ‘statistic’ (hmmm… maybe the point is not that far off after all)
[…] I wonder, having now read two books based in or on Ukraine, does it come close to making me a leading authority? […]
Sadly, I am surrounded in my own workplace by people who have read 15 books on each subject compared to my measly 5, and so I never get that feel good factor. I can see I need to pick some obscure subjects and get reading…
Ahh,
That seems to be the response of many history academics, obscurity means success and tenure!
Still it is often in the obscure fields that we discover really interesting elements of wider importance!
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