📚 Importance of Reading...a LOT

Jul 15, 2020

Anything I write on here, I want to be deeply valuable to you, forever. What will never change? Reading!

Well TBH, reading will likely become apart of Neuralink, but at least for the next 30 years or so, reading is still required. Hope this brings you a ton of value...

Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger spend the majority of their time just reading. Bill Gates does the same. Success leaves clues...Bill Gates averages 50 books per year!

The world and history is deeply complex, but is possible to learn and understand. You just need to read. That's true for most things.

It's clear why it's important. But compounding is your friend here, if you have manage 1-2 book per week, that adds up quickly. In a year that's 52-104 books, over 10 years that's 500-1000 books. How many people do you know who have read 1,000 books? What about over 50 years? Exactly.

Whatever your purpose - reading helps you get there. Learning everything you can about a subject helps you reason and see things more for what they are vs how you wish to see them. Working smarter is always better than working harder.

As I've said many times before, we are chimps that learned to talk. So any way to protect against our own ignorance is a good idea.

Reading is something I've never been good at. You have to find what works for you. I'm sure I'm partially autistic and dylexic too. Many books I've tried to read in the past I never remembered.

I forget things very quickly too.

Here's what works for me: I listen to books via Audible on 2x-3x speed and write notes at the same time. Do not multi-thread.

I spend 30 minutes - 1 hour every morning as soon as I get up. If required, I write down notes to make sure I fully understand. It's surprising how much you can understand at 2x-3x speed.

Adjust the speed to the point that you understand.

This means books (that are on average 8 hours of listening) can be completed in 2hr 30mins! At 1 hour per day, you're going to be completely 2 books per week.

Your subconcious runs 95% of your life so be very very very careful what you listen/read & what you say in your head/outloud. This is programming your subconcious. Guard it more than anything else.

It's easy to find authors that are heavily biased and negative, better: focus on the truth and positive reading. Yes even scientists are biased (humans are flawed creatures), so always make sure you can trust the author.

Focus on rational optimists.

How do you do this? Outsource it: let the smartest people in the world recommend you the books.

Me and my business partner have reviewed everything we could, these are my top lists.

Here's the list of books I'm working through:

• Vinod Khosla
• Bill Gates

The other smart people to clone is Naval Ravikant. Here is the books he mentioned before: bookadvice.co/naval-ravikant

These books have re-wired by brain and given me a much more clear perspective on the world and the future. I'm more positive about the future than ever before.

Thanks for reading. Just based on probabilities, if you don't read a lot I doubt you'll be successful. Don't waste time, time is running out 👊