Tips Book Freak #211: Tolstoy’s Guide to Daily Wisdom Leo Tolstoy’s Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul Get A Calendar of Wisdom A Calendar of Wisdom  is a daily reader Tolstoy assembled in the last decade of his life. Each entry pairs several short quotes from someone like Epictetus, Buddha, Marcus Aurelius, or Pascal with a paragraph of Tolstoy’s own commentary. He intended it to be read one page a day, and read repeatedly every year for the rest of the reader’s life. Core Principles 1. One wise idea a day is enough Tolstoy thought one wise idea a day was enough, and he laid the book out to match. You read a quote, you read his short reflection on it, and that’s it for the day. 2. False knowledge is worse than ignorance The useful skill is sorting what’s necessary to know from what isn’t. If you don’t know something, you can learn it. If you wrongly think you already know it, you can’t. 3.…