3 thin books to unrot your brain in one afternoon

If you want to un- | rot your brain in one afternoon, in less than a day, here are three thin books that you can finish in less than an afternoon. First is The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo. It's under 100 pages and was written in 1906. And while it might look like a book about tea, it's actually about how to live. His main argument is that the tea ceremony is a discipline of attention. You arrange a room, a flower, a bowl, and you treat one ordinary hour as something for. He also has this cool idea that you leave things unfinished deliberately so that the person who does experience it, completes it themselves. So if you love In Praise of Shadows from my previous video, this would be the next one for you. Second is The Wisdom of Insecurity from Alan Watts. His argument is that the anxiety that you feel is not secured, yet. It's a byproduct of trying to grip that, which by definition is already moving and that there's no version that arrive safe. The relief becomes stopping, chasing it as opposed to trying to win it. Third is The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House from Audre Lorde, which is only 64 pages in the Penguin edition. The famous essay that'll get you in this is that poetry is not a luxury. Argument is that expression is not some sort of decoration that sits on top of how you actually figure out what you want and what you think. The feeling comes first. Language makes it usable and only then can you act on it. So save this for your next library trip and hit follow for more videos just like this.