{"id":34696,"date":"2019-11-12T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=34696"},"modified":"2019-11-06T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T23:24:39","slug":"bookfreak16-3-3-3-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/bookfreak16-3-3-3-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #24: Timeless Advice From the Year 1637"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is a weekly newsletter with cognitive tools you can use to improve the quality of your life.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jesuit Baltasar Graci\u00e1n wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KKko6L \">The Art of Worldly Wisdom<\/a>\u00a0in 1637. It contains over 300 pieces of advice on a variety of subjects, including mental health, career, reputation, politics, and friendship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t feed the trolls<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cTis better to have a dispute with honourable people than to have a victory over dishonourable ones. You cannot treat with the ruined, for they have no hostages for rectitude. With them there is no true friendship, and their agreements are not binding, however stringent they may appear, because they have no feeling of honour. Never have to do with such men, for if honour does not restrain a man, virtue will not, since honour is the throne of rectitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t praise yourself, instead do praiseworthy things<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe greater your exploits the less you need affect them: content yourself with doing, leave the talking to others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s OK to change your mind<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cDo not hold your views too firmly. Every fool is fully convinced, and every one fully persuaded is a fool: the more erroneous his judgment the more firmly he holds it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/bookfreak\/\">Book Freak<\/a> is one of four newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other three are the <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/subscribe-to-email-list\/\">Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recomendo.com\/\">Recomendo<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/wimb\/\">What&#8217;s in my bag?<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timeless Advice From the Year 1637<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34698,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34696\/revisions\/34698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}