Ben Shapiro

I think that you have to have a good feedback loop in terms of people who are going to check you on those and tell you when you're wrong.

And that's something you should have just in your personal life, let alone your political life.

People who will tell you the truth about things, even when they're hard.

And you have to cultivate people who care about you so it's coming from a good place.

That's the way to stay sane.

It's the way to have a good life, let alone a good political outlook.

Obviously, when it comes to cultivating the proper context for things, the best thing that you can do is read and read and read and read and read and read.

Truly.

Just reading history, reading books.

I know books have gone out of fashion.

I know they're not out of fashion here, which is great.

Exactly, not here.

But in a lot of other places, they've gone totally out of fashion.

You can only have context when you know a broader context.

You can only have broader context when you actually know a broad panoply of things,

and usually you should read an entire book to even get one look at it.

It is kind of insane.

What I do for a living is I talk about an enormous number of topics.

There are experts on those topics who are more expert than I in pretty much all of those fields.

What makes you an expert in the public commentary space in politics is you read two books on a thing.