{"id":7835,"date":"2023-01-24T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7835"},"modified":"2023-01-24T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:40:25","slug":"tsundoku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7835","title":{"rendered":"Tsundoku"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-44981013\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-44981013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Tsundoku<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>is the Japanese word for the stack(s) of books you\u2019ve purchased but haven\u2019t read.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/culture-religion\/7-best-japanese-words?rebelltitem=6#rebelltitem6\">Its morphology<\/a>\u00a0combines\u00a0<em>tsunde-oku\u00a0<\/em>(letting things pile up) and\u00a0<em>dokusho<\/em>\u00a0(reading books).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I personally love that I have a pile of books I have bought but not yet read. Probably for the same reason that others have suggested &#8211; that it creates a sense of wonder and excitement there is so much more yet to learn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These shelves of unexplored ideas propel us to continue reading, continue learning, and never be comfortable that we know enough. Jessica Stillman calls this realization\u00a0intellectual humility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People who lack this intellectual humility \u2014 those without a yearning to acquire new books or visit their local library \u2014 may enjoy a sense of pride at having conquered their personal collection, but such a library provides all the use of a wall-mounted trophy. It becomes an \u201cego-booting appendage\u201d for decoration alone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/neuropsych\/do-i-own-too-many-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/neuropsych\/do-i-own-too-many-books\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-44981013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-44981013<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsundoku\u00a0is the Japanese word for the stack(s) of books you\u2019ve purchased but haven\u2019t read.\u00a0Its morphology\u00a0combines\u00a0tsunde-oku\u00a0(letting things pile up) and\u00a0dokusho\u00a0(reading books). I personally love that I have a pile of books I have bought but not yet read. Probably for the same reason that others have suggested &#8211; that it creates a sense of wonder and excitement there is so much more yet to learn: These shelves of unexplored ideas propel us to continue reading, continue learning, and never be comfortable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7835\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookreviews","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4WECr-tsundoku","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7837,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7835\/revisions\/7837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}