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Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. A new book from

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Adam Nicholson that looks interesting. It's
called How to Be Life Lessons from the

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Early Greeks. Nicholson has authored other
books about Greece, including Life Between the

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Tides and Why Homer Matters, but
he goes beyond Socrates and Aristotle and Plato

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in this new one, looking at
other lesser known Greek philosophers. He calls

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the period from seven hundred to five
hundred BC that of the Dolphin Mind,

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based on their living and trading off
the sea. This new book, How

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to Be, incorporates history, of
course, but also philosophy in art,

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culture, language, and archaeology.
It's a reflection on what struggles the philosopher's

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faced trying to understand life as we
know it, grappling with existential questions,

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including a big one, does love
rule the universe? What's most impactful is

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the realization that the ancient Greek philosophers
struggled back then with things we still struggle

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with today. How to Be Life
Lessons from the Early Greeks. The Book

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