Episode Details

Hey friends - today we're looking at Bertrand Russell, a profoundly influential and prolific British philosopher. He was also someone who exhibited many quiet habits and behaviours, of which I've become fascinated in over the past couple of months.

We explore his life, and draw out insights that will hopefully help you to live a more influential and exciting, yet quiet life.

Resources mentioned:

1. Deep Work. Cal Newport
2. The Spirit of Solitude: Bertrand Russell, Ray Monk
3. A History of Western Philosophy, Unpopular Essays, The Conquest of Happiness (Bertrand Russell)

I've also been working on a new weekly-ish newsletter which you can find here:

https://buttondown.com/guyroberts21

Quotes from this episode (Bertrand Russell):

• "A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live."
• "In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
• "We are all prone to the malady of the introvert, who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within."

Hope you have a wonderful rest of your day :)