Read a lot
“My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.” Peter Golkin
No man can get anywhere in this world in any really endurable manner without some recourse to books - H L Mecken
Knowledge this valuable deserves a more permanent, accessible format. And that is what books are.
Books make for great friends, because the best thinkers of the last few thousand years tell you their nuggets of wisdom.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain what others have labored hard for - Socrates
Make friends among the eminent dead - Charlie Munger’s quote about learning from reading books
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself - (Letter from W. E. B. Du Bois to Yolande Du Bois)
Literature is the accumulation of painful lessons humans have learned by trial and error.
What are books? Our main repositories for the very best that has been thought.
The only thing you ever need in life is for someone to teach you to read. Everything else you can teach yourself. - from the Article: I Escaped the Cult. But I Couldn’t Escape the Cult Mentality.
Read a lot
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to your body. It gives us the freedom to roam the expanse of space, time, history, and offer a deeper view of ideas, concepts, emotions, and body of knowledge.
Your brain on books is active — growing, changing and making new connections and different patterns, depending on the type of material you’re reading. Highly successful learners read a lot.
In fact, many of the most successful people share this appreciation for reading — they don’t see reading as a chore but as an opportunity to improve their lives, careers and businesses.
Elon Musk grew up reading two books a day, according to his brother. Bill Gates reads 50 books per year. Mark Zuckerberg reads at least one book every two weeks. Warren Buffett spends five to six hours per day reading five newspapers and 500 pages of corporate reports.
In a world where information is the new currency, reading is the best source of continuous learning, knowledge and acquiring more of that currency.
What happens when you read books constantly
Books give you a peculiar new lens through which to view the world.
- Your world(view) will be expanded.
- Your ability to think will improve.
- You will become more self-aware - which leads to personal transformation.
- Your sense of possibilities will grow.
tsundoku
the practice of buying a lot of books and keeping them in a pile because you intend to read them but have not done so yet; also used to refer to the pile itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
Sources of articles
- RSS feeds
- TODO list in my-kitchen-sink
- Bookmarks in browser
- Flipster app - library manazines
How to prioritize them? And pick good ones from them?
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