This article is about GritCult's view of Books & Reading. For a general overview, see Books & Reading on Wikipedia.
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| “This book is goated. The art of war. Steven pressfield.” (5 April 2025) | |
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| Portal | The Doctrine |
| Posts | 1,303 |
| Retweets | 4,569 |
| Likes | 53,151 |
| First post | 10 January 2018 |
| Latest post | 25 May 2026 |
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Books & Reading covers how GritCult reads as much as what he reads. He treats reading as demanding work rather than consumption, prefers old and obscure books to popular ones, and returns again and again to a small martial canon. Later posts add a caution: reading is preparation for life, not a substitute for it.
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He is strict about what counts as reading. An audiobook is not reading at all but listening to someone talking; real reading is "an intimate and high effort and high time demanding process", done with notes and background research [1]. The effort is the point, and he is dismissive of reading as display or as a way to avoid acting. In 2023 he described a pace of 2 books a month and praised how sharp deep reading kept his mind, while warning that too much reading dulls the mind and that the aim is an "optimal balance of living life, and reading about it" [2]. Later posts push the same way, mocking people who prepare forever by reading everything and never start.
What reading is for is formation. Great books and autobiographies, he argues, work like affirmations, because they show how someone's brain works and how they responded to the moments that shaped them [3]. That explains the shape of his reading lists, which lean on the lives of builders, fighters and dealmakers. Each year between Christmas and New Year he tries to read one book a day; the 2024 list ran from Bronze Age Mindset and The Cultured Thug to biographies of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Rockefeller, plus Trump's The Art of the Deal [4].
His filter is age. In 2018 he argued for reading older books because they are time tested, and whatever is still relevant has "in some regards become antifragile" [5]; later he dismissed most new books outright and warned against reading authors simply because they are popular. The canon he keeps returning to is martial and largely Japanese. In 2019 Hagakure was on track for his best new book of the year and he told followers to "READ HAGAKURE" [6], a line he reposted in 2021 and a book he kept quoting for years. Mishima later took a similar place: he begged followers to pick up Sun & Steel [7]. His most shared post about a single book is a short verdict on Steven Pressfield's The War of Art, mistitled in the post as The Art of War (he called it a typo the same day): "This book is goated" [8].
Recurring themes
- reading as high-effort work, not consumption
- balance between reading and living
- biographies as a way into other minds
- old, time-tested books over new and popular ones
- the samurai and warrior canon
Notable post
The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 380 retweets:
This book is goated.GRITCULT on X, 5 April 2025
The art of war.
Steven pressfield.
Selected posts
The 120 most retweeted of 1,303 posts in the archive about Books & Reading. Select a column heading to sort.
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| 5 April 2025 | 380 | 4,166 | This book is goated. The art of war. Steven pressfield. | ![]() | View |
| 19 July 2024 | 298 | 2,910 | THE ROMANCE MAXXING MANIFESTO. Treat your life like an epic novel. Do main character quests. | ![]() | View |
| 24 February 2026 | 294 | 2,127 | Miyamoto Musashi killed his first man at 13. Fought over 60 duels. Never lost a single one. Then at the peak of his power he walked away from fighting entirely and became a painter. A calligrapher. A philosopher. He wrote The Book of Five Rings in a cave weeks before he died.… | View | |
| 12 February 2024 | 183 | 1,303 | You need to be romance maxing. Treating your life like an epic novel. Doing main character quests. You need to be throwing yourself into the midst of things and never looking back. Life is about the breadth of experience. Life is about living. You need to be life maxxing. | View | |
| 11 January 2026 | 124 | 1,446 | Private hours determine your public results. Reading becomes conversation. Diet and exercise becomes energy and body. Discipline becomes confidence. Overtime, what you did in private becomes known. | View | |
| 6 November 2024 | 116 | 1,019 | Reading great books and autobiographies is like affirmations. You’re seeing how someone’s brain works. The things and moments that shaped them and how they responded. Reading and writing is a super power on the epigenetic level. It literally changes the shape of your brain. | View | |
| 13 May 2026 | 108 | 1,231 | read more books. send more DMs. take more risks. start more projects. have more conversations. visit more countries. meet more strangers. fail at more things. the answer to almost every problem in your 20s and 30s is simply: more. | View | |
| 19 July 2019 | 78 | 314 | life as a service everything will end up as a subscription service owning a house=>renting owning a car=>uber owning books=>kindle music records=>spotify owning films=>netflix relationships=>tinder social events=> social media shop=>amazon purchasing things: event => service | ![]() | View |
| 18 December 2024 | 76 | 1,297 | life hack its gonna all work out in the end and if you are reading this, you are blessed by GOD | ![]() | View |
| 23 March 2026 | 73 | 594 | "So you need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions." - Paul Graham | View | |
| 7 March 2021 | 73 | 241 | THE DECLINE OF A DEVELOPED COUNTRY A CASE STUDY OF THE DECLINE OF JAPAN AND HOW ITS POPULATION CRISIS IS AFFECTING THE COUNTRY... Maybe a warning for the west... relevant reading to see the effects of the lockdown... /\ ///🧵\\\ /// THREAD \\\ | ![]() | View |
| 7 December 2022 | 71 | 752 | If you are reading this. This is your sign you need to be sober for all of 2023. Your reliance and romanticism of altered inhibitions have rendered you weak. Reality is my drug. | View | |
| 19 March 2021 | 63 | 351 | 10 LESSONS FROM PETER THIEL'S INFAMOUS CLASS ON START UPS : BELOW I WILL SHARE THE TOP 10 TAKEAWAYS FROM HIS INFAMOUS LECTURES HE HELD AT STANFORD ABOUT START UPS... THESE CONDENSED LECTURES BECAME THE BOOK 0 TO 1 🧵 THREAD | ![]() | View |
| 16 May 2026 | 61 | 545 | 99% of people i talk to think too small if youre reading this, statistically, this is you. youre thinking too small. and the worst part is you already know it. you feel it in your chest every time you talk yourself out of something. that quiet voice in the back of your head that… | View | |
| 5 January 2026 | 58 | 734 | dont trust anyone who gets bored they have access to infinite knowledge, infinite entertainment. the worlds library. the ability to get in contact with anyone on social media. and can train their body and mind to learn any skill. if youre bored you havent even started | View | |
| 10 January 2026 | 57 | 831 | Years of hard reading compounds into sharp conversation. Years of clean eating compounds into sustained energy. Extreme outcomes require extreme inputs. | View | |
| 11 November 2022 | 57 | 283 | Lots of weird connections coming out the woodworks too. His mom worked for Hillary Clinton and now works for joe Biden. His dad worked with Gary gensler? Caroline Ellison father also worked with gensler. His. Father showed soros how to evade tax ? Book on right | View | |
| 17 December 2022 | 48 | 1,112 | the face of a woman who cannot name 10 books. | ![]() | View |
| 4 November 2022 | 40 | 505 | You will learn more about women by studying romance novels than you will by studying anything else. Literally millions of these books, and they are all the same. Same blue print. Same story. Same thing happens. | ![]() | View |
| 30 March 2021 | 39 | 249 | IF YOU ARE READING THIS, I WISH YOU THE BEST | View | |
| 21 November 2022 | 36 | 563 | If you’re reading this and you just lurk on twitter My advice would be to start posting more Doesn’t matter what you post. Just start. | View | |
| 23 September 2024 | 36 | 336 | There is more wisdom in your gut than there is in the greatest philosophy book. | View | |
| 17 December 2025 | 35 | 543 | It’s crazy when you break down how fast life goes. You have 28000 days on average. Avg person reading this has burnt 8-10000 just getting here. 4000 weeks. 77 summers. First 20 or so already gone, last 20 you’ll be old. Limited no. w/ your parents. Limited amount w/ kids | View | |
| 16 November 2024 | 35 | 326 | Mike Tyson on reading books in prison. | ![]() | View |
| 13 January 2026 | 34 | 466 | you can waste years preparing instead of starting. Reading everything. Planing everything meanwhile someone less informed just started and figured it out fear disguised as preparation is still fear | View | |
| 15 December 2022 | 34 | 218 | go gym eat meat drink milk lift weights read books socialise meet ppl Be creative learn history start a business help ppl climb mountains learn art fast ~18hours self improve experiment with psychadelics buy crypto dont wife anyone u won’t have kids with Have kids | View | |
| 2 May 2026 | 31 | 182 | Nikola Tesla arrived in New York in 1884 with 4 cents in his pocket, a book of poems, and a letter of recommendation to Thomas Edison. Edison hired him. Promised him $50,000 to redesign his entire DC motor system. Tesla worked 18 hour days for months. Slept on the factory floor.… | ![]() | View |
| 25 May 2026 | 29 | 427 | if youre reading this and youre broke, alone, and feel like youve wasted years. good. you now have clarity most people spend their whole lives avoiding. you know exactly what doesnt work. now go build. | View | |
| 4 January 2023 | 28 | 227 | IF YOU ARE READING THIS I WISH UPON YOU BLESSINGS AND GOOD FORTUNE | View | |
| 6 June 2021 | 28 | 224 | IF YOU ARE READING THIS I WISH UPON YOU BLESSINGS AND GOOD FORTUNE | View | |
| 18 February 2026 | 27 | 336 | the man who reads one book a month for 10 years will be unrecognisable. not because of any single book. but because he chose to never stop being curious. curiosity compounds harder than money. most people stop learning the day they leave school. and then they wonder why nothing… | View | |
| 30 November 2024 | 25 | 436 | Everyone reading this is a handsome genius. | View | |
| 19 November 2020 | 25 | 189 | Passive parents, ideological and corrupt teachers, a controlled media that seeks to subvert all values of a successful civilisation and empty headed kids that have celebrities and pop stars as idols, and comic book characters as gods, are sure a dangerous cocktail of decline. | View | |
| 2 July 2020 | 24 | 203 | buying books and reading books are separate hobbies | View | |
| 25 April 2021 | 23 | 118 | IF YOU ARE READING THIS I WISH UPON YOU BLESSINGS AND GOOD FORTUNE | View | |
| 23 May 2023 | 22 | 361 | reading old school wall st playboys, alex becker and now hormozi all give the same advice re. starting out get high paying job cut expenses low as possible calculate burn rate save enough money that you can live off of for 2 years quit job start biz take risks for 2 years | View | |
| 12 January 2022 | 21 | 162 | go gym eat meat drink milk lift weights read books socialise meet ppl Be creative learn history start a business help ppl climb mountains learn art fast ~18hours self improve experiment with psychadelics buy crypto dont wife anyone u won’t have kids with Have kids | View | |
| 21 December 2022 | 20 | 280 | Read books that AI has not been trained on. Banned books. Obscure books. Lost books Books that have not been translated. Thought crime books. | View | |
| 14 December 2020 | 20 | 148 | “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” ― Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea | View | |
| 6 September 2025 | 17 | 300 | "Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing." -Ben Franklin | View | |
| 28 December 2024 | 16 | 2,463 | @xx_howdy Most of these aren’t books. They’re porn for women | View | |
| 26 November 2022 | 16 | 142 | If you are reading this. You are not being ruthless enough. | View | |
| 25 November 2022 | 15 | 130 | IF YOU ARE READING THIS RISE | View | |
| 3 March 2023 | 14 | 253 | If you’re reading this. I need you to pray for me. | View | |
| 2 June 2025 | 14 | 251 | whenever my brain feels too overstimulated or fried. i either go for a walk. or read a book. crazy how much it changes your ability to focus and lock in | View | |
| 9 January 2025 | 14 | 144 | whenever someone asks with reading recommendations follow up with this. do not be blindly reading people cos theyre popular Al ot of popular authors are plainly just wrong and making "middwittism" worse . | View | |
| 15 December 2022 | 13 | 288 | Don’t read any of these midwit books. | View | |
| 1 October 2023 | 13 | 240 | But we are ourselves witnessing another burning of our libraries. Through the death of the internet. The internet is burning and no one cares. Just like how no one cared when Alexandria burnt. Or when the mongols burnt universities in Iraq or when Atlantis fell. | View | |
| 30 July 2025 | 13 | 174 | Funny enough. Children’s stories and myths. Have more insight and better philosophical wisdom than most philosophy books. Return to a whimsical awe of life. | View | |
| 20 February 2023 | 13 | 107 | Isn’t it crazy that all of modern medication has recognised that the mind is so powerful that it can replicate the effects of some drugs The placebo effect sounds insane. Like something out of a fantasy novel. | View | |
| 2 July 2022 | 13 | 100 | If you are reading this then this is the sign you have been waiting for. You need to spread more psy ops. | View | |
| 27 November 2022 | 13 | 90 | i love it when women read books and shit | View | |
| 10 September 2025 | 12 | 365 | Males who are 30 years old. And women who are 25 years old Each have a 50/50 chance to EVER have kids. That’s how bad the fertility rate has gotten. If you’re reading this and in these age brackets. There is a 50% chance you’ll never have a child. | View | |
| 23 February 2025 | 12 | 311 | Please. I’m begging you. Pick up a book. And let that book be Sun & Steel: Art, Action and Ritual Death. I can’t believe we’re still doing this. | View | |
| 10 November 2024 | 12 | 162 | Today I woke up beyond bullish. Beyond euphoria. I just know we are so early and yet so much more to go. If you are reading this. You made some right choices to be right here. Right now. | View | |
| 8 August 2021 | 12 | 83 | I never realised how much reading improves your writing. I initially fell in love with reading with self help which pulled me up and rescued from a dangerous and reckless path i was on. It's the one piece of advice I give to anyone and everyone. Read. Learn from those smarter | View | |
| 29 September 2019 | 12 | 68 | Read more books tbh Watch more films Do more activities Every year I am astonished at how much wealth of knowledge there is out there. I shall remain eternally a humble student. | View | |
| 17 March 2019 | 12 | 32 | Memes adapted to the current societal make up will continue to get weirder. Weird = novel. Humans want to seek out the novel. If a joke gets repeated too often it is no longer funny. What is truly funny is that the race to the bottom will make all previous events forgotten. | View | |
| 25 June 2025 | 11 | 245 | Nothing like a villain arc. To reinvent yourself with. This might be the start of something that’ll go down in the history books. | View | |
| 25 July 2025 | 11 | 198 | If you have a creative block. Only 3 solutions I e found to work. - read random book - go on long ass walk - drug bender | View | |
| 15 July 2024 | 11 | 184 | One of the things I’m excited about rn Is homeschooling. Homeschooling ai is ALREADY better than school outcomes and it only is getting better. Homeschool kids outperforming schools in all metrics. Whitepill as fuck. If you are reading this you should have kids asap. | View | |
| 1 April 2021 | 11 | 142 | IF U READING THIS THEN I SUP NOD DO U SUP NOD BACK? | View | |
| 24 December 2022 | 11 | 136 | Reading this | View | |
| 29 January 2023 | 11 | 105 | @DejaRu22 one of my favourite books wrote this a while back | View | |
| 4 October 2021 | 11 | 80 | IF YOU ARE READING THIS I WISH UPON YOU BLESSINGS AND GOOD FORTUNE | View | |
| 7 May 2022 | 11 | 78 | Never stop learning. One of the biggest mistakes I made recently was that I stopped learning. Stopped reading. Stopped trying to get better and my life was worse for it. Never forget your beginners. Mind. | View | |
| 27 December 2021 | 11 | 57 | SUPER EXCITED FOR 2022. I wish everyone reading this the best and good fortune. | View | |
| 7 March 2026 | 10 | 413 | day 1 on retatrutide. i feel the power oh human ingenuity coursing through my veins, this is how prometheus felt. this is the most spiritual experience ive had since reading nietzsche for the first time. the fog is lifting. my ancestors are smiling down upon me. summer is here. | ![]() | View |
| 15 October 2022 | 10 | 176 | There’s an entire industry built on the backs of midwit academics. From books. To podcasts. To shows. Faux Knowledge being consumed as entertainment. Marketed as self help and improvement to middle worker class as something to aspire to. They manufacture desire and sell status. | View | |
| 3 February 2024 | 10 | 146 | Reading this great essay by pg how to work hard. my favourite passage highlighted. takeaway: Working hard & being smart are both table stakes. they get you a chair to the table. | View | |
| 24 November 2022 | 10 | 143 | It’s not hard to read a book in a week. | View | |
| 25 December 2022 | 10 | 132 | chastising someone for a bad take is in itself bad you should be making more takes, non stop takes, have an opinion about everything, constantly trying to game your own mind and philosophy by reading more obscure takes just to take your take game to the next level | View | |
| 27 May 2019 | 10 | 100 | Hagakure is currently on track for the best new book read of the year. READ HAGAKURE. | View | |
| 20 June 2021 | 10 | 88 | IF YOU ARE READING THIS, I WISH YOU THE BEST | View | |
| 30 November 2022 | 10 | 86 | Reading is NOT learning. | View | |
| 14 June 2021 | 10 | 81 | IF YOU ARE READING THIS, I WISH YOU THE BEST | View | |
| 21 July 2020 | 10 | 76 | If you have a library and a garden. You have everything you need. Cicero. | View | |
| 9 June 2021 | 10 | 73 | BUYING BOOKS AND READING BOOKS ARE SEPARATE HOBBIES | View | |
| 22 April 2023 | 10 | 73 | IN READING THE LIVES OF GREAT MEN, I FOUND THAT THE FIRST VICTORY THEY WON WAS OVER THEMSELVES... SELF-DISCIPLINE WITH ALL OF THEM CAME FIRST. - HARRY S TRUMAN | View | |
| 8 June 2021 | 10 | 57 | reading the @Polkadot light paper currently one thing sticks out to me "Will there eventually be one blockchain to rule them all? We don’t think so." ill post my thoughts in this thread | View | |
| 16 January 2018 | 10 | 31 | After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. - Chinese Proverb | View | |
| 29 October 2025 | 9 | 350 | flights are rape on your nervous system - one of the worst things you can subject your body to. counteracting this with 50g of creatine, extra protein and caffiene. and will slowly take electrolytes during flight. also have my library esoteric PDFs. | View | |
| 4 May 2026 | 9 | 231 | you. the one scrolling at midnight instead of sleeping. you already know what you need to do. you dont need another video, another book, another plan. you need to start. tomorrow morning. no negotiation. | View | |
| 21 August 2018 | 9 | 86 | note to self : read more Thomas PAINE "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." | View | |
| 17 June 2021 | 9 | 80 | IF YOU ARE READING THIS, I WISH YOU THE BEST | View | |
| 20 April 2021 | 9 | 72 | IF YOU WANT TO GET ANYWHERE, YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO GO IN ONE DIRECTION FOR A VERY LONG TIME IF YOU ARE READING THIS, BE PREPARED FOR THE LONG ROAD | View | |
| 1 August 2020 | 9 | 70 | Most business books are merely advertisements for their authors’ services. | View | |
| 21 March 2020 | 9 | 63 | Twitter is the modern day library of Alexandria | View | |
| 10 October 2018 | 9 | 61 | I never realised how much reading improves your writing. I initially fell in love with reading with self help which pulled me up and rescued from a dangerous and reckless path i was on. It's the one piece of advice I give to anyone and everyone. Read. Learn from those smarter | View | |
| 20 September 2021 | 9 | 59 | BUYING BOOKS AND READING BOOKS ARE SEPARATE HOBBIES | View | |
| 4 October 2021 | 9 | 43 | note to self : read more Thomas PAINE "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead." "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." | View | |
| 23 January 2020 | 9 | 36 | i think there is a case of all celebrities/public figures/brands being in the uncanny valley. and anyone who seeks to be novel and original | View | |
| 5 July 2021 | 9 | 33 | A MAN ONLY LEARNS IN TWO WAYS, ONE BY READING, AND THE OTHER BY ASSOCIATION WITH SMARTER PEOPLE. - WILL ROGERS | View | |
| 16 September 2021 | 9 | 25 | WHEN WRITERS DIE THEY BECOME BOOKS, WHICH IS, AFTER ALL, NOT TOO BAD AN INCARNATION. - JORGE LUIS BORGES | View | |
| 11 December 2020 | 9 | 19 | Merry Christmas, honestly LOVE my followers and community. wanna give back RT this to win 5 random books(might bump this up to 10), and some merch from @qopi_ic (not yet properly launched) ill also send you some GRIT Industrial Concepts stickers. | View | |
| 1 March 2023 | 8 | 111 | if u r reading this, i love you | View | |
| 3 November 2018 | 8 | 79 | The west is fucked. 5 year old Chinese kid has read more books than most people I know. | View | |
| 6 August 2020 | 8 | 68 | Plebs reading philosophy is not Lindy. Philosophy is good for solving abstract and complex problems. Most people alive do not warrant the reading of philosophy as they do not have enough problems. | View | |
| 21 October 2018 | 8 | 47 | You don't "read" an audiobook. You listen to someone talking. Reading, for me at least, is an intimate and high effort and high time demanding process. I always take notes and do background reading. To get a larger grasp. Or if I don't understand something I Google etc | View | |
| 11 August 2023 | 8 | 47 | Passive parents, ideological and corrupt teachers, a controlled media that seeks to subvert all values of a successful civilisation and empty headed kids that have celebrities and pop stars as idols, and comic book characters as gods, are sure a dangerous cocktail of decline. | View | |
| 16 March 2019 | 8 | 33 | Takeaways: Short Netflix Entertainment industry is decentralising Content = attention economy. The main metric is distraction hours YouTube = p2p Netflix = c2p Cost & risk asymmetry Instead of reading Shakespeare, here you are reading @GRITCULT "proximity" | View | |
| 6 February 2019 | 8 | 21 | 1yr update: Since then developed alot. Now Memetic and abstraction research part of a decentralised research unit: @MADResearchUnit Here is a podcast reading of the 1500 word tweet thread. Will be transferring into essay for | View | |
| 8 November 2022 | 7 | 201 | Isaac Asimov wrote like 400 novels. For first 40 years of his career he averaged 1000 words a day. For the last 20 years of his life he averaged 1700 words a day. How the fuck did he write so much!!? | View | |
| 18 December 2024 | 7 | 199 | biggest midwit signal authors: bari weiss, sam harris, ben shapiro, yuval noah harari, jordan peterson, daniel kahneman, douglas murray you would be better off not reading anything of their work than to be contaminated by their mind viruses | View | |
| 26 June 2021 | 7 | 115 | im gonna finish reading these 400 tabs i have open and never use the internet again | View | |
| 19 March 2020 | 7 | 60 | u dont pay for books with money.... you pay for books with parts of your soul and sanity... and time. the best books have the ability to make u break ur own reality | View | |
| 25 March 2021 | 7 | 55 | READING MORE BOOKS AND WATCHING MORE FILMS AND LISTENING TO MORE SONGS, WILL MAKE YOU BETTER AT EVERYTHING YOU DO | View | |
| 6 February 2020 | 7 | 53 | “WHAT IS BORN WILL DIE, WHAT HAS BEEN GATHERED WILL BE DISPERSED, WHAT HAS BEEN ACCUMULATED WILL BE EXHAUSTED, WHAT HAS BEEN BUILT UP WILL COLLAPSE AND WHAT HAS BEEN HIGH WILL BE BROUGHT LOW.” ~ SOGYAL RINPOCHE, THE TIBETAN BOOK OF LIVING AND DYING | View | |
| 11 June 2021 | 7 | 44 | LIFE AS A SERVICE EVERYTHING WILL END UP AS A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE OWNING A HOUSE=>RENTING OWNING A CAR=>UBER OWNING BOOKS=>KINDLE MUSIC RECORDS=>SPOTIFY OWNING FILMS=>NETFLIX RELATIONSHIPS=>TINDER SOCIAL EVENTS=> SOCIAL MEDIA SHOP=>AMAZON PURCHASING THINGS: | View | |
| 16 August 2018 | 7 | 40 | Reading @GuruAnaerobic's lovely and succinct paper on fasting, which touches on implementation, hunter-gatherer behavior and the evolutionary "why?" behind fasting. … via : @recborg | ![]() | View |
| 6 October 2021 | 7 | 39 | 19th century cover book design hit different. | View | |
| 7 June 2019 | 7 | 37 | The Nazis used to burn books. Now we delete data of Nazis. | View | |
| 18 March 2019 | 7 | 23 | The world is more connected. Easier to share stories / narratives / memes. Humans are Memetic engines. We exchange stories. People will spend all day on twitter and YouTube, reading watching talking. Doing what? Exchanging stories. | View | |
| 27 November 2021 | 7 | 14 | Reading. Now. From the description. If this becomes true then would lead to a new DeFi summer. Huge. | View | |
| 14 March 2018 | 7 | 11 | quotes by George orwell from his book The road to wigan pier : "It is so with all types of manual work; it keeps us alive, and we are oblivious of its existence. It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an 'intellectual' and a superior person generally." | View | |
| 29 May 2023 | 6 | 155 | me reading my own tweets | View | |
| 17 December 2023 | 6 | 121 | I was given this book in the scientology temple in london while I was in university like a decade ago. it is by far, STILL the best book on how to study and how to LEARN FAST | View | |
| 9 May 2021 | 6 | 110 | BUYING BOOKS AND READING BOOKS ARE SEPARATE HOBBIES | View | |
| 22 August 2021 | 6 | 98 | BUYING BOOKS AND READING BOOKS ARE SEPARATE HOBBIES | View | |
| 20 March 2020 | 6 | 94 | im gonna finish reading these 400 tabs i have open and never use the internet again | View |
History
GritCult first posted about Books & Reading on 10 January 2018, and most recently on 25 May 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 1,303 times, most often in 2018 (433 posts).
See also
References
- ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (21 October 2018).
You don't "read" an audiobook. You listen to someone talking. Reading, for me at least, is an intimate and high effort and high time demanding process. I always take notes and do background reading.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (25 July 2023).
currently reading 2 books a month... too much reading can dull you however, need to have optimal balance of living life, and reading about it.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (6 November 2024).
Reading great books and autobiographies is like affirmations. You're seeing how someone's brain works.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (24 December 2024).
Every year; between christmas and new years, i like to read 1 book a day
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (10 July 2018).
why you should also read more older books older books => time tested if still relevant then knowledge within is in some regards become antifragile
. X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (27 May 2019).
Hagakure is currently on track for the best new book read of the year. READ HAGAKURE.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (23 February 2025).
Please. I'm begging you. Pick up a book. And let that book be Sun & Steel: Art, Action and Ritual Death.
X. - ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (5 April 2025).
This book is goated. The art of war. Steven pressfield.
X.
Further reading
- Romance Maxxing. The Manifesto, a manifesto by GritCult
- Write, Young Man, Write. A Manifesto, a manifesto by GritCult
- You Should Document More: A Manifesto, a manifesto by GritCult
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