Reading books daily is lame

[YIDIRYIDIR]

The smartest people often aren't the ones who read the most books. They're the ones that have the right attitude to knowledge.

Curiosity, intellectual honesty and Action-driven learning beat Accumulation by a miles. 

People with right attitude are researchers, always having a reason for their learning, wither they're curious about something, or want to figure out something, or have a goal in general. They do all that with intellectual honesty, as in ego-free, ideology-free, radical open-mindedness and integrity.

and learning happens in cycles of intense learning, reflection, action, integration, synthesis....

The "read books daily" is lame linear productivity advice. 

Edited 11 hours ago by YIDIRYIDIR

[CARDOZZO]

1 hour ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

Curiosity, intellectual honesty and Action-driven learning beat Accumulation by a miles. 

100%

Connecting your learning process to specific goals are necessary depending on where you are at life.

[YIDIRYIDIR]

@CARDOZZO yes, the thing though is I've been doing that unconsciously and couldn't articulate it until lately.

[CARDOZZO]

37 minutes ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

@CARDOZZO yes, the thing though is I've been doing that unconsciously and couldn't articulate it until lately.

I was doing it too.

Reading too much books on different topics at the same time, lack of focus, intent and clear goals.

[YIDIRYIDIR]

@CARDOZZO for me, i meant the opposite. i never made a habit of reading books daily.

[CARDOZZO]

4 hours ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

@CARDOZZO for me, i meant the opposite. i never made a habit of reading books daily.

That's great.

[Basman]

It's easy advice and it will educate most people more than the alternative. It keeps you reading. It's a simple trick that can get you a lot of results because you make learning a consistency. Most people don't learn anything constructively at all outside if such techniques. 

There is a lot of high quality information in books that you can't get just through the internet (unless your a pirate). 

7 hours ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

and learning happens in cycles of intense learning, reflection, action, integration, synthesis....

Sounds neurodivergent. Of course if your learning style is tumbling down an autism hole then reading books daily will feel stiffing.

Edited 3 hours ago by Basman

[Ulax]

@YIDIRYIDIR I disagree. You need the foundation of a lot of books, then you can become a maverick.

Otherwise most of one's creativity is gonna be spent re-inventing the wheel, and falling into all sorts of traps.

Imagine trying to make a historical theory without reading all sorts of books on what happened in the past. The theory will likely be delusional

[Lyubov]

Nah, awful take to be honest. 

But if you aren’t able to make it work for you then try something else. 

Obviously grinding books or trying to rush through them is not how you read. How you read is important. You need to focus your mind and train it to be sharp, reading does that. 
 

Audio books are good too but actually reading is ideally better. 20 mins a day. 

[YIDIRYIDIR]

1 hour ago, Basman said:

There is a lot of high quality information in books that you can't get just through the internet (unless your a pirate).

I didn't say to not read books. the idea is about the attitude in which you read them and other knowledge sources.

1 hour ago, Basman said:

 It keeps you reading. It's a simple trick that can get you a lot of results because you make learning a consistency. 

I disagree. it's more like a trick to horde information and mentally masturbate. if you don't put that to use, the brain is gonna dispose of it. there's something called mental obesity, it's when you expose yourself to so much information without using any, your brain stops remembering anything and you become someone who reads for stimulation and identity, not as a curious researcher.

1 hour ago, Basman said:

Sounds neurodivergent. Of course if your learning style is tumbling down an autism hole then reading books daily will feel stiffing.

it isn't Neurodivergent at all. this cycle applies to so many aspects of life. life is not linear. just like mastery happens in long plateaus and short bursts of improvement, just like in life, you go through cycles of feeling lost and unproductive, developing clarity and vision, getting into intensity phase where where you are getting results and you're on fire, then another where shit doesn't feel the same anymore and about to be lost again. 

if you live an entrepreneurial life, you'll understand this. 

[Basman]

Reading daily is like the index fund strategy of learning. Steady wins the race. 

Boom and bust autism holes is a niche style. 

[YIDIRYIDIR]

@Ulax Let's take your example of wanting to make a historical theory: 

You would be acting like a researcher, you would be curious all the time. because what got you to making that theory in the first place? Curiosity. you'll likely get into a phase of intense research where you find it effortless to read books without caring about how much you read, all you care about is to satisfy your curiosity, get answers. once you get those answers, reading becomes useless. after that, you'll move to another phase of theorizing and deep implementation and synthesis where you take more action than learning. that'll probably trigger more curiosity and the cycle continues. 

[Hasson_Miah]

You admitted to having not done the task itself. 

Who are you to be trusted?

[YIDIRYIDIR]

12 minutes ago, Lyubov said:

Nah, awful take to be honest. 

But if you aren’t able to make it work for you then try something else. 

Obviously grinding books or trying to rush through them is not how you read. How you read is important. You need to focus your mind and train it to be sharp, reading does that. 
 

Audio books are good too but actually reading is ideally better. 20 mins a day. 

I'm not saying reading book is bad. it's the attitude. 20 minutes a day will be useful only if you already have the attitude of a researcher. and you probably won't respect that 20 minutes because you got questions to answer and won't stop untill you do. you would implement a 20 minutes a day reading if you have tight schedule 

[YIDIRYIDIR]

1 minute ago, Hasson_Miah said:

You admitted to having not done the task itself. 

Who are you to be trusted?

it's not that i didn't try it. but i always found it not practical. i tried to implement it multiple times, and failed, mainly because it doesn't suit my attitude. there are times where i learn an equivalent of 3 hours a day of reading. and then others where i barely learn anything and I'm implementing after all the clarity and contemplation i got. 

[YIDIRYIDIR]

@Leo Gura You read so many books, probably more than any of us. can you enlighten us with you take on this? 

[YIDIRYIDIR]

@Basman you would do that for learning a skill for example, or a creative project, or a business.the index fund logic works there. but learning? in my experience, learning doesn't happen like that.

[Hasson_Miah]

@YIDIRYIDIR ''  i never made a habit of reading books daily. '' 

I tried to get healthy. 

I tried to fix my attitude.

I tried to stay out of prison. 

I tried, I tried, I tried. 

Well the truth is you admitted you never made a habit of reading books daily. 

Until you do and until you have your authority on this matter is one sided. 

You are not to be trusted and this post doesn't come from a balanced source of knowledge. 

You wish you could read daily, frustrated that you tried and didn't succeed and now create this polarising post. 

[Basman]

4 minutes ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

@Basman you would do that for learning a skill for example, or a creative project, or a business.the index fund logic works there. but learning? in my experience, learning doesn't happen like that.

I guess you learnt nothing at school then. 

[YIDIRYIDIR]

5 minutes ago, Hasson_Miah said:

@YIDIRYIDIR ''  i never made a habit of reading books daily. '' 

I tried to get healthy. 

I tried to fix my attitude.

I tried to stay out of prison. 

I tried, I tried, I tried. 

Well the truth is you admitted you never made a habit of reading books daily. 

the "never implemented a habit" is a wrong accusation. i don't have to stick to it for a year to have had tried it. it's enough to experiment with it for a while and see if it gets results. that's what i did. that's the point of experimentation. 

6 minutes ago, Hasson_Miah said:

@YIDIRYIDIR 

You wish you could read daily, frustrated that you tried and didn't succeed and now create this polarising post. 

That's just false mind reading. You're the one frustrated from my opinion. all i did is share what i learned from my experience, and listed arguments for it.