We are what we consume
I cannot live without books.
- THOMAS JEFFERSON
Thomas Jefferson built a personal library of 7,000 books at his home in Monticello. He loved reading so much he invented a rotating table for his study - it made it easier to swivel between five books at the same time.His favorite books included Plato’s Works of Plato, Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, John Locke’s Two Treaties of Government, and Henry Home’s The Gentleman Farmer.
We are what we consume.
We can see this easily with the food we eat. But it’s true for everything we consume.
We are the books and articles we read. The movies we watch and music we hear.
We’re the accounts we follow on Instagram and Twitter.
We’re the conversations we have and the places we visit.
We’re the time we spend (or don’t spend) in silence.
That Saturday we spent with an old friend when we drank too much wine at lunch. We’re that experience too.
All that stuff we’re consuming determines which neurons fire and which connections our brains make.
The beauty of this is we get to decide what goes in.
And those choices determine what comes out.
