Wesley Huff

Yeah, make people lazy.

Yeah, make people lazy.

Yeah, and I think that there's an aspect of like a message that's trying to be communicated. I mean we are modern people of the Enlightenment. So we almost have a perspective where we want something to be very like exhaustive that ancient writers didn't have those same sort of conventions. So they're going to capitalize on certain –

Yeah, and I think that there's an aspect of like a message that's trying to be communicated. I mean we are modern people of the Enlightenment. So we almost have a perspective where we want something to be very like exhaustive that ancient writers didn't have those same sort of conventions. So they're going to capitalize on certain –

Yeah, and I think that there's an aspect of like a message that's trying to be communicated. I mean we are modern people of the Enlightenment. So we almost have a perspective where we want something to be very like exhaustive that ancient writers didn't have those same sort of conventions. So they're going to capitalize on certain –

ideas and concepts for the purpose of, when someone tells you a story, you don't memorize everything. You go to university, you write notes, right? The people who are writing everything the professor is saying word for word, probably not the people who are gonna remember what the professor says as well as the people who write down the main things.

ideas and concepts for the purpose of, when someone tells you a story, you don't memorize everything. You go to university, you write notes, right? The people who are writing everything the professor is saying word for word, probably not the people who are gonna remember what the professor says as well as the people who write down the main things.

ideas and concepts for the purpose of, when someone tells you a story, you don't memorize everything. You go to university, you write notes, right? The people who are writing everything the professor is saying word for word, probably not the people who are gonna remember what the professor says as well as the people who write down the main things.

And when you write down the main things, the main points, without all of the other stuff that kind of is just – it's icing, then you get the main idea more – ancient writers talk about this. So there's a guy named Quintilian who exists in the first century B.C. And there's this series of writings that we call – pro-gymnasmata, which are basically like, how do you do good writing?

And when you write down the main things, the main points, without all of the other stuff that kind of is just – it's icing, then you get the main idea more – ancient writers talk about this. So there's a guy named Quintilian who exists in the first century B.C. And there's this series of writings that we call – pro-gymnasmata, which are basically like, how do you do good writing?

And when you write down the main things, the main points, without all of the other stuff that kind of is just – it's icing, then you get the main idea more – ancient writers talk about this. So there's a guy named Quintilian who exists in the first century B.C. And there's this series of writings that we call – pro-gymnasmata, which are basically like, how do you do good writing?

He's training people, maybe even individuals like Plutarch, who is one of the best known ancient biographers. And saying, like, it's just as important what you don't say as to what you do say. Because you don't want to, A, writing in the ancient world is expensive, really expensive. And B, you want to make sure that... your audience is actually getting the message that you want to convey.

He's training people, maybe even individuals like Plutarch, who is one of the best known ancient biographers. And saying, like, it's just as important what you don't say as to what you do say. Because you don't want to, A, writing in the ancient world is expensive, really expensive. And B, you want to make sure that... your audience is actually getting the message that you want to convey.

He's training people, maybe even individuals like Plutarch, who is one of the best known ancient biographers. And saying, like, it's just as important what you don't say as to what you do say. Because you don't want to, A, writing in the ancient world is expensive, really expensive. And B, you want to make sure that... your audience is actually getting the message that you want to convey.

And so this is something that when you read like German scholars, biblical scholars of the 19th and 20th century, or even prior to that, like 18th, 19th century, They look at the Gospels and they're like, this isn't biography because it's not capitalizing on Jesus' childhood. And we all know that good biographies tell about your childhood and psychologize and these sorts of things.

And so this is something that when you read like German scholars, biblical scholars of the 19th and 20th century, or even prior to that, like 18th, 19th century, They look at the Gospels and they're like, this isn't biography because it's not capitalizing on Jesus' childhood. And we all know that good biographies tell about your childhood and psychologize and these sorts of things.

And so this is something that when you read like German scholars, biblical scholars of the 19th and 20th century, or even prior to that, like 18th, 19th century, They look at the Gospels and they're like, this isn't biography because it's not capitalizing on Jesus' childhood. And we all know that good biographies tell about your childhood and psychologize and these sorts of things.

Whereas if you look at some of these ancient writers who are talking about how you should write biography, they say if there's nothing in their childhood that's that significant— Don't write it.

Whereas if you look at some of these ancient writers who are talking about how you should write biography, they say if there's nothing in their childhood that's that significant— Don't write it.

Whereas if you look at some of these ancient writers who are talking about how you should write biography, they say if there's nothing in their childhood that's that significant— Don't write it.