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The Thirsty Scholar Handbook: Essentials No One Tells You
"Fortune favors the brave" buyers of this handbook!
The Thirsty Scholar Handbook: An uber-succinct primer for the budding thinker. Usually in less than one page, our completed, ~100 page handbook burst-transmits a myriad of topics into fertile minds to include: Point/counter-points for world issues, etiquette, wine, vocabulary, quotes, toasts, money, conversational prowess, etc.
As high school and college students are jettisoned ass-over-elbows from their homes and into the world less prepared than ever, one book, a lone sentinel, awaits to brace them against the tides of ignorance. Strengthen your vocabulary, have a quotation or toast on the tip of your tongue, remove your napkin from your plate upon seating and, for God's sake, participate in your company's 401k asap! Is global warming real? Is the death penalty justified? We have no idea! But by reading a SINGLE PAGE of this book, you will understand the arguments both for and against each issue and you will immediately be more informed than 99% of the people with whom you speak! Not just a collection of facts, each section of this book has been refined by the actual experiences of living persons (the dead have not gotten back to us, yet). The vocabulary was taken from lists we compiled while studying in college. The select quotations elaborate upon excerpts we are exposed to via popular culture, e.g. "A little learning is a dangerous thing" or "To be or not to be" are expanded upon so that a reader can glean the full meaning from the whole stanza with author and literary work cited.
One place we omit our opinions is in the World Issues section. In it, we state simply the for and against speaking points on either side of an issue so that a person can know ... REALLY KNOW the strengths and weaknesses in their point of view. Simply put, this book is disruptive and is going to shock everyone who is not 100% apprised of the facts. This book will change you forever. This is truth. All we ask is for you to remember that knowledge is power and that you may choose to do terrible or wondrous acts with it. Like Uncle Ben said in Spiderman, “With great power comes great responsibility.” We hope that you use it to lift up and not tear down. Who are we? Just two guys who made a wealth of wrong turns, spent too little time paying attention in class and a lot of time at the local … hell, whatever watering hole they could find. Learning simple lessons in the slowest, most exquisitely painful ways possible, we’ve cobbled this handbook together for the sake of those around us. And we are proud of it. It is a good.
“When the student is ready the master appears.” Unfortunately, we don’t often become apt students until we have already been burned or committed irreversible errors. However, armed with this book in a short amount of time, you can gain insights and abilities you didn’t even know you needed. And the brevity of the book makes it unintimidating when revisiting the information. This book will help dissolve the veil concealing essential knowledge. This book will disturb you. This book will ignite you. And it will make you question even your fundamental beliefs. It will make thirsty scholars of you all.
The Thirsty Scholar Handbook: An uber-succinct primer for the budding thinker. Usually in less than one page, our completed, ~100 page handbook burst-transmits a myriad of topics into fertile minds to include: Point/counter-points for world issues, etiquette, wine, vocabulary, quotes, toasts, money, conversational prowess, etc.
As high school and college students are jettisoned ass-over-elbows from their homes and into the world less prepared than ever, one book, a lone sentinel, awaits to brace them against the tides of ignorance. Strengthen your vocabulary, have a quotation or toast on the tip of your tongue, remove your napkin from your plate upon seating and, for God's sake, participate in your company's 401k asap! Is global warming real? Is the death penalty justified? We have no idea! But by reading a SINGLE PAGE of this book, you will understand the arguments both for and against each issue and you will immediately be more informed than 99% of the people with whom you speak! Not just a collection of facts, each section of this book has been refined by the actual experiences of living persons (the dead have not gotten back to us, yet). The vocabulary was taken from lists we compiled while studying in college. The select quotations elaborate upon excerpts we are exposed to via popular culture, e.g. "A little learning is a dangerous thing" or "To be or not to be" are expanded upon so that a reader can glean the full meaning from the whole stanza with author and literary work cited.
One place we omit our opinions is in the World Issues section. In it, we state simply the for and against speaking points on either side of an issue so that a person can know ... REALLY KNOW the strengths and weaknesses in their point of view. Simply put, this book is disruptive and is going to shock everyone who is not 100% apprised of the facts. This book will change you forever. This is truth. All we ask is for you to remember that knowledge is power and that you may choose to do terrible or wondrous acts with it. Like Uncle Ben said in Spiderman, “With great power comes great responsibility.” We hope that you use it to lift up and not tear down. Who are we? Just two guys who made a wealth of wrong turns, spent too little time paying attention in class and a lot of time at the local … hell, whatever watering hole they could find. Learning simple lessons in the slowest, most exquisitely painful ways possible, we’ve cobbled this handbook together for the sake of those around us. And we are proud of it. It is a good.
“When the student is ready the master appears.” Unfortunately, we don’t often become apt students until we have already been burned or committed irreversible errors. However, armed with this book in a short amount of time, you can gain insights and abilities you didn’t even know you needed. And the brevity of the book makes it unintimidating when revisiting the information. This book will help dissolve the veil concealing essential knowledge. This book will disturb you. This book will ignite you. And it will make you question even your fundamental beliefs. It will make thirsty scholars of you all.
110 pages, Paperback
Published May 23, 2016
About the author
Nathanial Covell
7 books8 followersNate Covell is consummate geek whose heart has always been torn between comedy and a fascination with the pursuit of virtue. Previously, he worked for the White House Military Office in DC, in cyber counterintelligence, in the Middle East, was a Japanese interpreter and lived in Japan and Italy. Nate has a B.A. in Creative Writing and has done graduate work at Harvard.
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September 14, 2016
Full review to come.
Unbiased rating based upon a copy won through the Goodreads First Reads program.
Unbiased rating based upon a copy won through the Goodreads First Reads program.
August 24, 2016
This basic primer on how to operate once one leaves college. I found it to be enjoyable and suggest those leaving college grab a copy. If you have been outside of college for some time you will most likely know a majority of the information contained therein, especially if you are in a white-collar management role.
This being said, a good primer for those who want a resource to have in book form rather than Youtube everything.
This being said, a good primer for those who want a resource to have in book form rather than Youtube everything.
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