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This book was mentioned as an example of challenging reading material but emphasized that with commitment, even difficult books can be read. It was mentioned alongside Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War."
it's like a billion pages long and it's hard can you read it yes yes you can you simply need to make a commitment to not doing something else that's more trivial and less useful to you
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This book was mentioned as an example of challenging reading material but emphasized that with commitment, even difficult books can be read. It was mentioned alongside Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War."
it's like a billion pages long and it's hard can you read it yes yes you can you simply need to make a commitment to not doing something else that's more trivial and less useful to you