The Read Well Podcast
af Eddy Hood
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Learn to Saunter Through Your Books | EP128
Learn to Saunter Through Your Books | EP128
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Welcome to The Read Well Podcast, a weekly show dedicated to building a strong reading habit, improving research strategies, and learning intellectual ideas from the books you love. Your passion may be the wisdom of Plato, how to cook a curry, or the complex ideas hidden in Dostoevsky’s fiction. Whatever you’re researching today, this show is about helping you master the topic. You’ll find practical advice on how to take effective book notes, develop your annotation skills, and benefit from tools like a Zettelkasten or a second brain. So grab your favorite book, and let's get started.
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- Learn to Saunter Through Your Books | EP128 · 20 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 128In this episode, I explore Henry David Thoreau's essay Walking and what it can teach us about becoming better readers. Thoreau believed that walking could be transformed into…
- Nobody Is Coming to Educate You | EP127 · 17 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 127For years, I thought education was something that happened in classrooms, universities, and formal programs. Then I realized that some of the most meaningful learning in my life…
- 📚 What I’m Reading This Year (Book Club Season 4) | EP 126 · 26 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 126I share the reading list for Season 4, explain why Homer’s The Odyssey remains one of the most rewarding books a reader can pick up, and explore an idea from René Descartes that…
- The Reader’s Discipline: Choosing to Pay Attention | EP125 · 20 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 125Most people think becoming a better reader is about speed, memory, or reading more books. I’ve come to believe it starts somewhere much simpler: attention. In this episode, I…
- Read Like Socrates: How to Choose Books That Actually Make You Better | EP 124 · 24 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 124I used to think reading more books was the goal. Then I encountered a moment in Plato’s Protagoras where Socrates warns that what you learn will either help or harm you—and you…
- How I Rebuild a Reading Habit After Falling Off | EP 123 · 17 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 123When my reading habit falls apart, I don’t try to brute-force it back into existence. I take a slower, kinder approach—and it works. In this episode, I explain why life disrupts…
- Timothy Schaffert on The Titanic Survivors Book Club | EP 122 · 54 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 122In this episode, I sit down with novelist Timothy Schaffert to talk about The Titanic Survivors Book Club and the quiet, sustaining role books play in a life. We discuss how…
- My 2026 Reading Goals + 11 Books I Loved Reading in 2025 | EP121 · 17 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 121I've spent years setting reading goals that looked impressive on paper but left me feeling overwhelmed. This year, I’m taking a healthier path. I explain why focusing on total…
- My #1 Trick I for Remembering Books | EP120 · 16 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 120I’ve tried every trick in the book to remember what I read—and the one that works isn’t about highlighting or taking notes. It’s about applying ideas. I’ll show how I take…
- Design the Perfect Reading Space | EP 119 · 49 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 119In this episode, I sit down with author Thatcher Wine to talk about something most of us overlook: the space where we read. Thatcher shares practical ideas for creating a room…
- Reading Deeply Takes Practice | EP118 · 14 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 118Reading deeply takes practice. The more you wrestle with complex ideas, the more your mind learns how to sit still with them. In this episode, I talk about what that practice…
- How to Retain and Process What You Read 📚 | EP 117 · 11 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 117I’ve found that reading a book isn’t enough—you have to wrestle with it. In this episode, I’ll show you how Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages method can help you process what you…
- Our Motto: Read Slowly - Take Notes - Apply the Ideas | EP 116 · 18 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 116In this episode, I talk about a simple motto that changed the way I read: Read slowly, take notes, apply the ideas. Most of us rush through books hoping the next one will fix…
- Nietzsche and the Art of Living Dangerously | EP 115 · 16 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 115Nietzsche once said, “Live dangerously.” But what did he mean by that? In this episode, I explore the heart of that idea—why safety can dull the human spirit, and how risk is…
- Too Many Books to Read, Too Little Time | EP 114 · 42 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 114I’m behind in my reading. Does that ever happen to you? Let’s chat about why it happens, how it messes with the brain, and how to get back on track without all the reader’s guilt…
- Learn to Journal Like Ralph Waldo Emerson | EP 113 · 30 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 113In this episode, I close out my series on Emerson’s journals by looking at what his essay Self-Reliance can teach us about keeping a thoughtful record of our lives. I also share…
- Was John Locke's Method of Journaling a Good Idea? | EP 112 · 22 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 112In this episode I explain how John Locke created a system for indexing journals that looks clever at first but quickly becomes a burden. I also share why Ralph Waldo Emerson…
- Stay in Constant Contact with Your Journals | EP 111 · 14 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 111Ralph Waldo Emerson didn’t just write in his journals—he returned to them again and again. In this episode, I’ll share how that practice helped him refine his thinking and why it…
- A Journal is a Savings Bank of Ideas | EP 110 · 11 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 110In this episode, I begin a six-part series on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s journaling habits. Emerson didn’t see his journals as a place to record daily events—he saw them as a savings…
- Why Bookstores Matter in a Digital World | EP 109 · 10 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 109What makes a bookstore more than four walls and shelves of paper? In this episode, I read a short essay about how bookstores can help us rediscover ourselves. I’ll also share a…
