Books that’ll make you disgustingly educated
Another list of mind sharpening reads to make you the most interesting person in the room.
Becoming Disgustingly Educated.
Books that’ll make you disgustingly educated
Another list of mind sharpening reads to make you the most interesting person in the room.
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Oct 26, 2026
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October 26th, 2026.
From the “BECOMING DISGUSTINGLY EDUCATED” series
For people who want to know more than everyone else.
Hello my love,
If you’ve read enough of my articles, you know I stand firmly on the bridge that literature can change your life and this can hardly be propaganda, because it’s changed mine. It has sharpened me, taught me to think critically, and given me the audacity to join conversations I truly have no business being in, but as a well-read woman, reality is as I make it.
Knowledge opens doors; I can’t say this enough.
Whatever your definition of success is, knowledge is the chisel with which you carve it so seek knowledge and do it constantly. That’s why I give you, my loves, another mind sharpening book list. These books have paved my own journey to being disgustingly educated. Now, they’re yours.
1. The Book of Imaginary Beings — Jorge Luis Borges
What if you could trace humanity’s imagination through the creatures it has invented? Borges takes you through a strange encyclopaedia of beings drawn from mythology, folklore, ancient literature and the imaginations of different civilisations. There are dragons, monstrous hybrids, celestial creatures and beings whose existence reveal something about the cultures that dreamed them into life. Part literary curiosity, part history of mythology, this is a reminder that the things humans invent can tell us almost as much about ourselves as the things we discover.
2. The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt
Why can two intelligent, well-meaning people look at the same situation and arrive at completely opposite moral conclusions? Haidt explores the psychology of morality, arguing that our moral judgments often emerge from intuition before reason arrives to defend them.
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