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My Reading Advice

My Reading Advice

My reading advice is this, pure and simple.

Read books.

Real old books.

Read fiction.

Read in the bed.

Carry a book with you everywhere you go, under your arm will do fine.

Read more than one book at the same time.

Read history and philosophy.

Read outside.

Read the Bible.

Read biographies and poetry and mystery.

And don’t just read, write down the passages that jump out to you.

Archive your thoughts and ideas somewhere. I use Evernote.

Take a reading break.

And then keep reading.

Read memoirs.

Read good humor.

Read in the bathroom.

Read the classics.

Read magazines on the weekends too.

And read long-form articles online.

Always go back to the pleasure of it.

Outread your entire generation.

Keep going.

Blew my mind when I learned that – functionally – CANT read and DONT read are the same thing. 😳 pic.twitter.com/4pEd3D16EA

— Sterling Terrell 📚 (@SterlingTerrell) August 28, 2023

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The Compulsion To Read

The Compulsion To Read

The compulsion to read is not unlike a lot of other compulsions, I suppose.

I mean, was going to say that the reading urge is more of a simple please than all the other addictions and desires of the flesh – but I am not sure that is true.

My need to be alone and to be lost in my thoughts, back and forth between the pages of a book, is as real and as physical as the need for food and the need of relationship.

At least I think so. 🤷‍♂️

I feel as though I cannot breathe without it.

For I spent many afternoons in college and graduate school in similar poses, lost among the stacks.

My kind of downtime…

The most striking part of Elon’s character as a young boy was his compulsion to read. From a very young age, he seemed to have a book in his hands at all times. “It was not unusual for him to read ten hours a day,” said Kimbal. “If it was the weekend, he could go through two books in a day.” The family went on numerous shopping excursions in which they realized mid-trip that Elon had gone missing. Maye or Kimbal would pop into the nearest bookstore and find Elon somewhere near the back sitting on the floor and reading in one of his trancelike states.

-Ashley Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Amazon)

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