The Psychology of the Sublime | Robert Greene
11 November - 1 hour 26 minsWhen Robert Greene woke from his stroke, he looked out the hospital window and everything had an intensity he had never seen.
A radiant glow in the sky and in the leaves of the trees. Crows flying past the window. The word he uses is incandescence. Lying there, he took it as a signal that it was finally time to write the book he had been thinking about for twenty years.
Robert Greene is the author of The Laws of Human Nature, Mastery, and The 48 Laws of Power, New York Times bestsellers with millions of copies sold worldwide. His new book is The Law of the Sublime. It took seven years, and because he has difficulty typing now, he wrote the whole thing by hand, over a hundred notebooks.
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