Hey. Swell. So it's been my goal to read more nonfiction, and I definitely want to try it out, but I haven't found anything exactly that necessarily grabs my eye. So if anybody has nonfiction book RECs, book recommendations, I'm all ears. And I really want to learn about new things, so yeah. Thanks
Hey. So the book I'm reading right now is called Finding Ultra. It's a story of Rich Roll, how he overcame drug addiction and use that energy to become one of the fittest people on the planet. I got it on Amazon for like, $15, so it's a real good story. He never thought of himself as a super athlete or anything, so it's encouraging to see if we try, there's more inside of us than we realize
Kyle Crossman
@kylecrossman · 2:49
And this guy is going around interviewing slaughterhouse workers, and the stories they have are just insane. They're truly incredible. They're horrific. People are losing body parts. And it just really opened my eyes to saying, why am I eating this if people are actually losing their lives just so I can do this? And it's pretty crazy. And I just have never really heard anyone say, like, oh, I don't eat meat because I think the workers should be treated better
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
But he starts out with how our senses take information in literally the science of it, but then through optical illusions, how the brain makes sense of these things and processes these things, and then what can we take away from? He does the same thing with language, talking about the history of it and the effects it has, not only scientifically, but then on our psychology, the way that we make sense and perceive things
Sebastian Cahill
@sebc23 · 2:56
And it's just very complex and it sheds a lot of light onto what I think is very often a tricky part of history to illuminate, obviously, because the Troubles in Ireland were such a confusing and deeply complicated political time with a lot of background necessary to kind of really learn and understand it. And I thought that this author did a great job of incorporating lots of different contexts so that people can really understand as best as possible. Another one. In that vein is how the Irish became white
