Are You ADDICTED to Reading?

[allen0879]

As I wrote in TGRRE , at some point you got to stop reading about swimming, and jump in the pool.

Or, do what I did...
run as fast as you can and jump into the pool knowing that you have no idea how to swim
flail around helplessly for a while while almost drowning
get out of the pool
read about swimming for a bit
ask a few swimmers how they learned how to swim
jump back into the pool and struggle a bit less, swallow lots of water, but make progress
get out and catch your breath again
think about what you did wrong
research and read more about swimming
fix the problems
repeat until you know how to swim

 

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[Thinh]

I recently spoke to a guy from here who reached out to me, said he's been on the forums for 7 years, and read over 900 self-help and business books, and yet can't get anywhere. Studied NLP, hypnosis, Tony Robbins, therapy, Michael Singer, etc. etc. and yet he still has a job, and has never been able to get any side hustle off the ground.

And what shocked me was when he said that he always feels like "the next book" will unlock what he needs to be successful. And there's always a next one. I mean there are 130,000,000 books in the world. If you read 1 book per day, every day, for 80 years, you will have read 30,000 books. Which is 0.023% of all the books that are out there. Meaning NOTHING!

Look guys - you can't read every book in the world. You can't even read a majority of them. You've got NO CHANCE to do that. The knowledge you'll gain in a lifetime will be as NOTHING compared to all the knowledge available out there.

I feel that just like porn has made the availability of sexual images at your fingertips, and hence many get addicted to it, the internet, Kindle and so on have made the availability of books virtually unlimited. This means that it's very easy to give your brain a shot of dopamine by learning something new, even if it's useless.

This conversation and a few others have made me convinced that there is an addiction to self-help going around. And it's all driven by wrong beliefs that people have.

If you're getting started, you don't need to read a lot of books. In my opinion, if you've just read TMF , you're more than ready. Maybe read Ca$hvertising as well for some marketing know-how. But that's literarily all you need if you're starting with ZERO and no EXPERIENCE whatsoever. If you've already worked a job, probably just TMF is all you need. And it's exactly how I started. It took many years before I started reading books more voraciously, and I honestly don't think I've learned a whole lot more from that, compared to what I learned by doing...

There's a process to figuring things out for yourself. If you want to be great at anything, you can't always go to a book. You need to be able to figure things out for yourself. Learn from LIFE. That's how the originators of the second-hand knoweldge you find in books first figured things out for themselves. You can do it too. In fact, if you want to be great, you NEED to do it.

If you always go to a book when you don't know, then you're running away from the "not knowing" feeling. You never learn how to figure things out for yourself. And you never gain any depth.

You need to question some of your beliefs to get rid of this addiction. One of the main beliefs is that "you need to read a lot of books to be successful". And that's false. There are some big hitters out there who didn't read ANY business book ever. I've met such people. How did they do it?

Call your compulsive reading in the face of the unknown for what it is - an addiction and a coping mechanism for fear and uncertainty. You need to let go, and learn to rely on yourself more, and on figuring things out for yourself. And you do that by taking ACTION.

Don't let reading hold you back from taking ACTION!

The problem is when someone's reading just for reading, or in hope to find a magic silver bullet.

Reading when:
a) It satisfies one's curiosity—and by that I mean genuine curiosity, not FOMO about some magical bit of information that would change one's life,
b) to find specific information or answer about a specific problem at hand (I used specific twice for emphasis)

is perfectly fine.

We often hear most successful people are voracious reader. But I'd bet $10,000 that the vast majority of these people read because they just enjoy reading, not to attain a specific goal.
Thinking reading is what will make you successful based on the info "most successful people are voracious reader" is exactly like saying "Most successful people were wearing pants" and thinking wearing pants is what will make you successful.

 

[KushShah9492]

Not as much addicted to reading, as much as I’m addicted to buying new stuff so that I’d have that magical formula that would change my life.
Reading should be fun, not something that you HAVE to do because “EVERYONE WHO READS IS SUCCESSFUL”. People are successful not because they read, but because they take action.
Sure reading is good, but reading instead of taking action is not. We’ve been brainwashed into thinking that reading is the new COOL thing to do. Sure, read.. but when you’re done working.

 

[Rim]

I have the impression of reading myself! I love reading personal development books and I have been doing this for about 4 years, I dream of financial freedom but it is not easy, my turnover this month does not exceed 200 euros, so I looking, I'm looking for the next book that will finally help me get there. I recently listened to an interview on the psychology of the poor. That if we have no one around who is rich, well, it is not easy to know the wealth and that they had to rub shoulders with rich people to help us change our beliefs and generate more income, as it is the forum of the fastlane here I am hoping to imbibe myself with good energy

 

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[David Fitz]

I love reading but there is definitely a line between reading too much and not taking action.

I think it needs to be like educated action. Read a book, take a course or ask someone and then take action on it.

 

[vanshchandwaney]

I recently spoke to a guy from here who reached out to me, said he's been on the forums for 7 years, and read over 900 self-help and business books, and yet can't get anywhere. Studied NLP, hypnosis, Tony Robbins, therapy, Michael Singer, etc. etc. and yet he still has a job, and has never been able to get any side hustle off the ground.

And what shocked me was when he said that he always feels like "the next book" will unlock what he needs to be successful. And there's always a next one. I mean there are 130,000,000 books in the world. If you read 1 book per day, every day, for 80 years, you will have read 30,000 books. Which is 0.023% of all the books that are out there. Meaning NOTHING!

Look guys - you can't read every book in the world. You can't even read a majority of them. You've got NO CHANCE to do that. The knowledge you'll gain in a lifetime will be as NOTHING compared to all the knowledge available out there.

I feel that just like porn has made the availability of sexual images at your fingertips, and hence many get addicted to it, the internet, Kindle and so on have made the availability of books virtually unlimited. This means that it's very easy to give your brain a shot of dopamine by learning something new, even if it's useless.

This conversation and a few others have made me convinced that there is an addiction to self-help going around. And it's all driven by wrong beliefs that people have.

If you're getting started, you don't need to read a lot of books. In my opinion, if you've just read TMF , you're more than ready. Maybe read Ca$hvertising as well for some marketing know-how. But that's literarily all you need if you're starting with ZERO and no EXPERIENCE whatsoever. If you've already worked a job, probably just TMF is all you need. And it's exactly how I started. It took many years before I started reading books more voraciously, and I honestly don't think I've learned a whole lot more from that, compared to what I learned by doing...

There's a process to figuring things out for yourself. If you want to be great at anything, you can't always go to a book. You need to be able to figure things out for yourself. Learn from LIFE. That's how the originators of the second-hand knoweldge you find in books first figured things out for themselves. You can do it too. In fact, if you want to be great, you NEED to do it.

If you always go to a book when you don't know, then you're running away from the "not knowing" feeling. You never learn how to figure things out for yourself. And you never gain any depth.

You need to question some of your beliefs to get rid of this addiction. One of the main beliefs is that "you need to read a lot of books to be successful". And that's false. There are some big hitters out there who didn't read ANY business book ever. I've met such people. How did they do it?

Call your compulsive reading in the face of the unknown for what it is - an addiction and a coping mechanism for fear and uncertainty. You need to let go, and learn to rely on yourself more, and on figuring things out for yourself. And you do that by taking ACTION.

Don't let reading hold you back from taking ACTION!

To add to this, a lot of people, in a race to read as much as possible, fly through the books they read and jump straight to the next one. Where's the retention in that? I don't mind reading fiction this way, but when I read non-fiction, I keep a notebook and a pen with me to jot down stuff that I feel like I could refer to later on. When I'm done with the book, I skim through it all over again.

If you're reading to gain practical knowledge, you can't blaze through a book like that; it's just a waste of time.

 

[KushShah9492]

I don’t see the point in reading with a pen and paper. If I’m just skimming through, I can’t get any value out of it. Which is why I despise speed reading.

 

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[RussRussman18]

Most books written in the past 100 years have been worthless. Commoditized products for consumption, rather than tools for education. Books written with the sole purpose of advertising a marketing agency or investment firm, and getting more people into their funnel. Or to promote their public speaking career. You have to learn how to evaluate the utility of books before you buy them, by reading reviews or summaries. Because the majority are a waste of time

 

[harlansjobs]

Yes it is very easy to get addicted to knowledge.
At one point I got addicted to several forums and was downloading a lot of the crap they had there, downloading WSO and other things that were a waste of time.

The only thing I am now reading (besides going back and re-reading TMF ), is the philosophy of the stoics- The obstacle is the Way, Ego, and now Stillness. They have helped me curb my hostility, anger and made me actually go back to reading TMF . So yes I am trying to live those self-help books and they have made a difference for me.
I wanted the fundamentals of copywriting and found it the Boron letters and maybe one day will get into CashVertising, but nothing works better than analyzing what others have done, and then JUMPING IN AND DOING IT.

 

[harlansjobs]

Most books written in the past 100 years have been worthless. Commoditized products for consumption, rather than tools for education. Books written with the sole purpose of advertising a marketing agency or investment firm, and getting more people into their funnel. Or to promote their public speaking career. You have to learn how to evaluate the utility of books before you buy them, by reading reviews or summaries. Because the majority are a waste of time

Even Russell Brunson's books are basically advertising for Click Funnels. Yes he gives you information, but what an ego-fest it also is IMHO.

 

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[RussRussman18]

Alex Becker exposes "business books" in these two videos:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQu_MDL-Enk

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBAnavvzYLY

 

[Black_Dragon43]

Alex Becker exposes "business books" in these two videos:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQu_MDL-Enk

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBAnavvzYLY

I usually find Alex to be blabbering and never getting to the point, but in the top video which I've watched, he was quite on point throughout.

 

[WJK]

Most books written in the past 100 years have been worthless. Commoditized products for consumption, rather than tools for education. Books written with the sole purpose of advertising a marketing agency or investment firm, and getting more people into their funnel. Or to promote their public speaking career. You have to learn how to evaluate the utility of books before you buy them, by reading reviews or summaries. Because the majority are a waste of time

If what you say is true, I've sure wasted a lot of my life on reading and listening to all of those books! My view is 180 degrees from yours.

 

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[Dionysos]

I definitely think being addicted to reading could be a potential blockage. Because there's the risk of having these aha! moments or getting to the point of visualizing something (say business) and then keep daydreaming about it. Same thing could be said about forums like these..

But if you make reading a habit, read everyday but for a certain amount (say an hour) and take action along the way it's such an awesome method of learning about so much stuff in little time. Maybe just start out with some of the best (for example TMF and Atomic Habits and then start executing!

 

[WJK]

I definitely think being addicted to reading could be a potential blockage. Because there's the risk of having these aha! moments or getting to the point of visualizing something (say business) and then keep daydreaming about it. Same thing could be said about forums like these..

But if you make reading a habit, read everyday but for a certain amount (say an hour) and take action along the way it's such an awesome method of learning about so much stuff in little time. Maybe just start out with some of the best (for example TMF and Atomic Habits and then start executing!

I listen to audiobooks so I can do other stuff while I'm consuming my books and podcasts. It expands my world SO much!

 

[woken]

I enjoy reading. I recently got inspired by a thread and got Rockefeller’s, Carnegie’s, 50 cent’s and Will Smith’s biographies. I find them uplifting but my intention is to get to understand their lives better.

99.9% of what I read in these books can’t help me as advice can change on a weekly basis. What worked a week ago doesn’t work anymore. What worked 200 years ago for them certainly doesn’t work anymore.

But, nonetheless, I see them as well documented Execution Threads. Just as on the forum, I might find a gold nugget or two but not actively looking for something.

 

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[Mattie]

I recently spoke to a guy from here who reached out to me, said he's been on the forums for 7 years, and read over 900 self-help and business books, and yet can't get anywhere. Studied NLP, hypnosis, Tony Robbins, therapy, Michael Singer, etc. etc. and yet he still has a job, and has never been able to get any side hustle off the ground.

And what shocked me was when he said that he always feels like "the next book" will unlock what he needs to be successful. And there's always a next one. I mean there are 130,000,000 books in the world. If you read 1 book per day, every day, for 80 years, you will have read 30,000 books. Which is 0.023% of all the books that are out there. Meaning NOTHING!

Look guys - you can't read every book in the world. You can't even read a majority of them. You've got NO CHANCE to do that. The knowledge you'll gain in a lifetime will be as NOTHING compared to all the knowledge available out there.

I feel that just like porn has made the availability of sexual images at your fingertips, and hence many get addicted to it, the internet, Kindle and so on have made the availability of books virtually unlimited. This means that it's very easy to give your brain a shot of dopamine by learning something new, even if it's useless.

This conversation and a few others have made me convinced that there is an addiction to self-help going around. And it's all driven by wrong beliefs that people have.

If you're getting started, you don't need to read a lot of books. In my opinion, if you've just read TMF, you're more than ready. Maybe read Ca$hvertising as well for some marketing know-how. But that's literarily all you need if you're starting with ZERO and no EXPERIENCE whatsoever. If you've already worked a job, probably just TMF is all you need. And it's exactly how I started. It took many years before I started reading books more voraciously, and I honestly don't think I've learned a whole lot more from that, compared to what I learned by doing...

There's a process to figuring things out for yourself. If you want to be great at anything, you can't always go to a book. You need to be able to figure things out for yourself. Learn from LIFE. That's how the originators of the second-hand knoweldge you find in books first figured things out for themselves. You can do it too. In fact, if you want to be great, you NEED to do it.

If you always go to a book when you don't know, then you're running away from the "not knowing" feeling. You never learn how to figure things out for yourself. And you never gain any depth.

You need to question some of your beliefs to get rid of this addiction. One of the main beliefs is that "you need to read a lot of books to be successful". And that's false. There are some big hitters out there who didn't read ANY business book ever. I've met such people. How did they do it?

Call your compulsive reading in the face of the unknown for what it is - an addiction and a coping mechanism for fear and uncertainty. You need to let go, and learn to rely on yourself more, and on figuring things out for yourself. And you do that by taking ACTION.

Don't let reading hold you back from taking ACTION!

i have been a life long learner all my life. I don't believe it has to be an addiction. Some of us are just born Librarians metaphorically speaking. I've been a writer all my life as well. It may change from paper and ink to internet, but loads of people in my past can verify I have hand written lots of stuff.

i have read books on the job in the past as a nurse aide, because you have times where you have stuff done and they're sleeping and you may just be watching them to make sure they don't fall out of bed or roll over certain ways.

I've studied at the lawyers office in the waiting room with a text book. Naturally, 5 Chapter Tests is from an Accelerated Private Collge. Then you ever read all the crap on H.I.P.P.A and Confidentiality and all the other jazz they make your read in training, life-long learning in jobs and careers. I remember the boring stuff with about every company I ever worked for. I didn't enjoy the video's, or paper books they hand out.

Readings a part of life. If you feel your addicted to reading, you can always volunteer to teach others how to read that are illiterate. You might get them addicted to improving themselves. You know how many people think it's to hard to read or don't want to read at all, because it's more fun to be addicted to drugs, alcohol, sex, and fun stuff.

They really appreciate it when they're court ordered to show up for A.A. or Parenting Courses. Then all the Family Service Programs require you to get your crap together and self-improve and as a former parenting mentor, i had to go teach them to Watch video's and read books and get addicted to helping themselves.

I tell you, it's a rough world these days. I am a pimp for getting people to change their lives. Not to mention your in a forum that requires you to read three books on the internet. I don't regret all the words I've read in my life. I think you'd be better off the be more selective in saying what garbage content that is useless should be avoided

 

[Mattie]

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[Seamster]

Everyone on this forum needs to read The Millionaire Next Door because I see a lot of brainwashing going on by Elon Musk of some of the posters here: "My inconvenient cordless luxury cars that are hard to fix and need $8,000 battery packs every 10 years will save you money!" I hear this in the automotive industry where I work and also on this forum. Spending money never saves you money.

Sure, TMF is a great book. Got me to switch my thinking to get money NOW vs the FUTURE cashflow. But, MJ doesn't have the space to tell you that if you want to make it big you can't go out and keep up with Joneses while you're doing it! He does mention it, but if you miss this, you're broke! Case in point, and we'll only do one today, because this is based on a real person:

If you make $60k, you bring-home around $3600/mo. Personally I pay $500 rent and my car's paid for, so I pay $2000/mo (single guy living in apartment can't get much lower than that). Most places you'd have $1000 rent, so $2500/mo. STOP HERE! But now you have to add a new Tesla or Bronco to show the ladies so now you're at $3100/mo. But if you listen to bankers you qualify for a $400,000 home! So now you're spending $2500 on the house, $600 on the car, and still the $1500 that *I* live on: $4600. Time to get a working wife!

Live cheap while you're running your business. Or else failure is likely.

 

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[Dionysos]

I listen to audiobooks so I can do other stuff while I'm consuming my books and podcasts. It expands my world SO much!

Yeah that would be a great way to combine the best of both worlds! Haven't really gotten into audiobooks as of yet, but I think I should though. Now when I have a long drive or walk I just throw on a podcast but I'm always listening to the same stuff..

 

[Black_Dragon43]

i have been a life long learner all my life. I don't believe it has to be an addiction.

If what you say is true, I've sure wasted a lot of my life on reading and listening to all of those books! My view is 180 degrees from yours.

I think that both reflection and action are required for a meaningful life, in balance. Reading is part of reflection... if you go out there and take action, reading can help you think about your experiences better and take smarter decisions. However, reading can become a substitute for action. Reflection without action IMO is a disease of the mind, and in that sense it can be an addiction.

 

[Seamster]

I think that both reflection and action are required for a meaningful life, in balance. Reading is part of reflection... if you go out there and take action, reading can help you think about your experiences better and take smarter decisions. However, reading can become a substitute for action. Reflection without action IMO is a disease of the mind, and in that sense it can be an addiction.

I agree with this. I sit around all day being lazy. Then I eat lunch, drink coffee, and read about the economy or real estate or motivation, etc? I'm ready to go to work!

 

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[Woosah]

I have a huge list of books I'd like to get to, but something I've been doing recently is revisiting the classics—the ones that have caused huge shifts before.

While I think reading is important and beneficial, it can definitely be a form of action-faking, making a person think they're being productive. Reading shouldn't replace "time at work", but maybe it can replace "time watching TV" or some other activity that doesn't bring as much value into life.

 

[K1 Lambo]

I recently spoke to a guy from here who reached out to me, said he's been on the forums for 7 years, and read over 900 self-help and business books, and yet can't get anywhere. Studied NLP, hypnosis, Tony Robbins, therapy, Michael Singer, etc. etc. and yet he still has a job, and has never been able to get any side hustle off the ground.

And what shocked me was when he said that he always feels like "the next book" will unlock what he needs to be successful. And there's always a next one. I mean there are 130,000,000 books in the world. If you read 1 book per day, every day, for 80 years, you will have read 30,000 books. Which is 0.023% of all the books that are out there. Meaning NOTHING!

Look guys - you can't read every book in the world. You can't even read a majority of them. You've got NO CHANCE to do that. The knowledge you'll gain in a lifetime will be as NOTHING compared to all the knowledge available out there.

I feel that just like porn has made the availability of sexual images at your fingertips, and hence many get addicted to it, the internet, Kindle and so on have made the availability of books virtually unlimited. This means that it's very easy to give your brain a shot of dopamine by learning something new, even if it's useless.

This conversation and a few others have made me convinced that there is an addiction to self-help going around. And it's all driven by wrong beliefs that people have.

If you're getting started, you don't need to read a lot of books. In my opinion, if you've just read TMF, you're more than ready. Maybe read Ca$hvertising as well for some marketing know-how. But that's literarily all you need if you're starting with ZERO and no EXPERIENCE whatsoever. If you've already worked a job, probably just TMF is all you need. And it's exactly how I started. It took many years before I started reading books more voraciously, and I honestly don't think I've learned a whole lot more from that, compared to what I learned by doing...

There's a process to figuring things out for yourself. If you want to be great at anything, you can't always go to a book. You need to be able to figure things out for yourself. Learn from LIFE. That's how the originators of the second-hand knoweldge you find in books first figured things out for themselves. You can do it too. In fact, if you want to be great, you NEED to do it.

If you always go to a book when you don't know, then you're running away from the "not knowing" feeling. You never learn how to figure things out for yourself. And you never gain any depth.

You need to question some of your beliefs to get rid of this addiction. One of the main beliefs is that "you need to read a lot of books to be successful". And that's false. There are some big hitters out there who didn't read ANY business book ever. I've met such people. How did they do it?

Call your compulsive reading in the face of the unknown for what it is - an addiction and a coping mechanism for fear and uncertainty. You need to let go, and learn to rely on yourself more, and on figuring things out for yourself. And you do that by taking ACTION.

Don't let reading hold you back from taking ACTION!

The problem is not taking action on what you've read(we're talking about business and self development books here). I agree, it can get to the point of an addiction. If that's the case, then it is sort of like porn in a way. You feel you're making progress but in reality you're still in the same place. It's like adding horsepower to a Ferrari that's idle in a closed garage.

That being said, you should do both. Take action and read(or listen to podcasts, YouTube or whatever).

 

[MaxKhalus]

I recently spoke to a guy from here who reached out to me, said he's been on the forums for 7 years, and read over 900 self-help and business books, and yet can't get anywhere. Studied NLP, hypnosis, Tony Robbins, therapy, Michael Singer, etc. etc. and yet he still has a job, and has never been able to get any side hustle off the ground.

And what shocked me was when he said that he always feels like "the next book" will unlock what he needs to be successful. And there's always a next one. I mean there are 130,000,000 books in the world. If you read 1 book per day, every day, for 80 years, you will have read 30,000 books. Which is 0.023% of all the books that are out there. Meaning NOTHING!

Look guys - you can't read every book in the world. You can't even read a majority of them. You've got NO CHANCE to do that. The knowledge you'll gain in a lifetime will be as NOTHING compared to all the knowledge available out there.

I feel that just like porn has made the availability of sexual images at your fingertips, and hence many get addicted to it, the internet, Kindle and so on have made the availability of books virtually unlimited. This means that it's very easy to give your brain a shot of dopamine by learning something new, even if it's useless.

This conversation and a few others have made me convinced that there is an addiction to self-help going around. And it's all driven by wrong beliefs that people have.

If you're getting started, you don't need to read a lot of books. In my opinion, if you've just read TMF, you're more than ready. Maybe read Ca$hvertising as well for some marketing know-how. But that's literarily all you need if you're starting with ZERO and no EXPERIENCE whatsoever. If you've already worked a job, probably just TMF is all you need. And it's exactly how I started. It took many years before I started reading books more voraciously, and I honestly don't think I've learned a whole lot more from that, compared to what I learned by doing...

There's a process to figuring things out for yourself. If you want to be great at anything, you can't always go to a book. You need to be able to figure things out for yourself. Learn from LIFE. That's how the originators of the second-hand knoweldge you find in books first figured things out for themselves. You can do it too. In fact, if you want to be great, you NEED to do it.

If you always go to a book when you don't know, then you're running away from the "not knowing" feeling. You never learn how to figure things out for yourself. And you never gain any depth.

You need to question some of your beliefs to get rid of this addiction. One of the main beliefs is that "you need to read a lot of books to be successful". And that's false. There are some big hitters out there who didn't read ANY business book ever. I've met such people. How did they do it?

Call your compulsive reading in the face of the unknown for what it is - an addiction and a coping mechanism for fear and uncertainty. You need to let go, and learn to rely on yourself more, and on figuring things out for yourself. And you do that by taking ACTION.

Don't let reading hold you back from taking ACTION!

I don't think I'm doing this right. Always on extremist tendencies.

From 15 to 18, couldn't stop reading books like Unscripted .
Now 21, stopped reading years ago and don't regret it. Kinda hate reading because of the time waste involved.

I'm learning in other ways. The kind of stuff I do changes too fast for someone to write a book that's not outdated in two months.

 

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[Deleted73907]

I quit reading self-help books. I’ll read one or two this year, but they’ll be books I have already read.

I read a lot of fiction. It helps me relax and it improves my linguistic knowledge. Knowing more words helps me make sense of the world.

Love this short and concise piece of perspective.

I am currently reading "The Time Machine", the H.G. Wells classic from 1895. I am absolutely amazed about the depth and range of vocabulary he uses in this book (I am not a native English speaker btw.), a real pleasure to read.