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These blog posts are short, daily ideas on reading deeply, taking notes, and applying the ideas. Each post is written by Eddy Hood with the goal of encouraging readers to pick up a book in favor of technology.

A man reading a book while dark shadows lurk behind him.

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Can Fiction Help Us Understand Our Shadow Selves? Let’s Ask Carl Jung.

Carl Jung, the famed Swiss psychiatrist (1875–1961), believed we all walk around with a “shadow self” — a hidden part of our unconscious filled with repressed thoughts, desires, and experiences. According to Jung, our dreams are a powerful way to encounter this shadow. By exploring our darker sides, we don’t become worse—we become more whole,Continue reading Can Fiction Help Us Understand Our Shadow Selves? Let’s Ask Carl Jung.

James Baldwin writing at his desk.

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I Can’t Get Over The Courage of Author James Baldwin

I’ve been reading a lot of James Baldwin lately (1924 – 1987). I’m struck by his courage to write about hard things. Here was a man who spoke about being Black in 1950s America. If that wasn’t enough, he was also homosexual. He wrote about these things without reservation. He spoke about being a minister’sContinue reading I Can’t Get Over The Courage of Author James Baldwin