FREE YOUR MIND:Our culture's bias towards technology, specialization, and bureaucracy all mitigate against having a mind that is free to pursue one’s own ideas and to allow the time and predilection to participate in the House of the Intellect. Here I use the example of medical doctors who, over the course of the last 80 years, have been transformed from key participants in the House of the Intellect to narrow specialists who now lack the education, inclination, and cultural environment to be valuable participants. Having our minds free and avoiding self-contempt and cynicism are fundamental to creating the peculiar mental habits necessary to the House of the Intellect. A Few Notable Doctors: W. Somerset MaughamWilliam Carlos WilliamsAnton ChekhovArthur Conan DoyleMikhail BulgakovJohn KeatsErasmus DarwinSigmund FreudCharles DarwinSign-up for Wes’s PATREON to get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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