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Antilibraries Are the Better Libraries
Here’s how they can accelerate your learning.
Do you ever feel guilty about the book staple you haven’t read? Polymath Nassim Nicholas Taleb says you shouldn’t:
“Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.”
Yes, you read it right. The pages you haven’t studied indeed add value to your life. Here’s why.
Antilibraries protect you from ignorance
When you just read a few books in your life, you’re likely aware of what you don’t know. But once you’ve read through some hundred books, you tend to become ignorant.
You might be too confident, too sure, and less aware of the things you don’t know. That’s where antilibraries come into play.
The books you haven’t read (and will never read) assemble your antilibrary.
They represent unknowledge and are the best cure for overconfidence. Nassim Nicholas Taleb writes:
“A private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool.”
Antilibraries help you overcome the biggest enemy
The illusion of knowledge — the things you think you know — is learning’s biggest enemy. The authors of the…
