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Why Study the Classics?
#4: They Force us to Think.
 At
first reading the classics can be a chore, an assignment. If we
persist, it eventually becomes leisure and even entertainment. Then one
day (after a few weeks for some, perhaps years for another) something
clicks; all the exposure to greatness reaches critical mass, and you,
the reader, awaken. Your exposure to greatness changes you: your ideas
are bigger, your dreams wilder, your plans more challenging, your faith
more powerful.
 The
classics can be hard work, and that is exactly what is needed to learn
to think. Thinking is hard; deep thinking is not entertaining or easy.
Thinking is
like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a
weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or
exert our minds.
They require
us to think. Not just in a rote memory way, either. The classics make us
struggle, search, ponder, seek, analyze, discover, decide, and
reconsider.
As with
physical exercise, the exertion leads to pleasing results as we
metamorphose and experience the pleasure of doing something wholesome
and difficult that changes us for the better.
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