Although I was not yet familiar with gyms, my idea of knowledge was as follows. “Some can be more intelligent than others in a structured environment-in fact school has a selection bias as it favors those quicker in such an environment, and like anything competitive, at the expense of performance outside it. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.” Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menancingly. The library should contain as much of what you don’t know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore, professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these books have you read?” and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. “The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull.
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