text:  rigor in prescribing what you should read and at what time of day, and it's inspiring to see Jefferson and Adams as old men exchanging the latest books they've read, and Adams so excited to learn that Pythagoras, a founder of Greek moral philosophy, had traveled in the East and read the Hindu Vedas, and Adams extracting from the wisdom of the East and West this idea that we are what we think, life is shaped by the mind,