Until a couple of years ago, I throught cleaning your teeth was about cleaning your teeth.
It turns out I was wrong. It’s about cleaning your gumline. Because it’s not so much about getting rid of food debris, as cleaning up after the bacteria that live in your mouth. Who breed and create debris (plaque) whether you eat or not.
There are lots of things we think we know, that actually turn out to be wrong, or at least capable of alternative interpretations. The more alternatives we see, the more we can imagine even better ones.
If you’re up for it, here are a few of the books that have turned my world of ideas upside down:
- Seeing through clothes (Anne Hollander)
- The Medieval Machine (Jean Gimpel)
- Humankind – a hopeful history (Rutger Bregman)
- The Joy of Tax (Richard Murphy)
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (Samin Nosrat)
- The Deficit Myth (Stephanie Kelton)
- Breath (James Nestor)
- The Dawn of Everything (David Wengrow and David Graeber)
Of course, every book does this to some extent – even the ones you’ve read before, because you can’t step into the same river twice.
Which books would you recommend?
