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one of many great lessons in that book. happy to have finally read it after it came up on here a few times.

I have found it a real slog (challenge), and gave up after chapter 3. I think the lack of context made it a bit dull for me. Maybe I should try an annotated text to see if holds my attention better!

i found the 1st chapter to be a bit of a slog as you say, but after that it picked up for me. and there were hints of what was to come in the 1st chapter.

but 100%, it was a little challenging to get into initially.

i also took breaks reading it as i read other books. it can definitely be digested piecemeal as it's a collection of thoughts.

It's something to dip into. It's remarkable that it survived at all, seeing as it was just his personal "notebook".

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