Philosophy
fromiRunFar
1 week agoClassical Texts for Running and Life
Excellence is difficult and requires sustained effort; running and reading cultivate virtue and classical books offer enduring guidance for improving character.
If you're an overachiever, suddenly you're in seminars with grad students. They would sit there and be like, 'I only know the word in German to describe the feeling I get when I read this chapter,' Then it's some 20-syllable-long word that is so specifically a reference to the feeling and I was like, 'God, I'm out of my league here.'