Stephan Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine comic strip has a running gag with a gray donkey called the Great Wise Ass who sits atop a hill and dispenses sage advice. His July 11, 2026 comic had this dialogue:
Pig: Oh, Great Wise Ass, how does one
become smart?
Great Wise Ass: The key is to read, read, read, read, read.
Do you do that?
Pig: Does watching Instagram videos count?
Pig (to Rat): Turns out it doesn’t count.
On July 6, 2024 I blogged about The magic of reading books – stories told by librarians and booksellers. Near the end of that post I had said:
“Back in high school I found a life-changing little book by George Polya titled How to Solve It: a system of thinking which can help you solve any problem. It gave me a whole new intellectual toolbox – which I used in my careers in applied research and engineering consulting.”
My image shows the shelf with public speaking books at the downtown Boise Public Library.
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