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Social media can often provide a simulacrum of feeling informed by allowing us to consume an endless stream of chatter and observations. But while it is a useful tool for making connections, keeping up with headlines, and picking up clues for further inquiry, there is no substitute for lifelong study built on a foundation of reading books, long-form essays, and reports. I encourage everyone to set a goal for book reading in a given year. It does not need to that ambitious, but it helps to set a target. For a period of roughly a decade I read around 100 books per year. Due to life circumstances I’ve scaled this down to around 40. But even 10 or 20 would make a difference. Books are not just a means to obtain information but also have salutary neurological effects. They teach you how to remain focused and structure abstract information. The trick is that you should read what you find most interesting, and not what others necessarily tell you to read. The quote below is when I knew SBF would be a fraud:
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@nounishprof
Ummm @tldr you’re really going to like this cast. As are you @adrienne Had not seen this quote from SBF. Says a lot about his character. BUT I fear this is not that uncommon with GenZ. I find myself reading less and less. I may need to set a goal myself.
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do you have your own recommened list?
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@antimofm.eth
25% to 50% of adults never read books, period - it's important to get from 0 to 1, then maybe move to 1 book a month Any more might sounds so ambitious they'd probably never start
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I feel similarly about social media- it’s extremely useful and there are many benefits, but it’s not a substitute for reading, writing, and deep thinking. @nounishprof this is the best articulation yet to explain my vehement anti-long cast stance. I don’t want X (or warpcast) to be the everything app. I want to leave the platform and do my reading and writing elsewhere.
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Says so much about lacking in depth of character. I've read books that are 500 pages that should've been longer. To go deep on a topic, it takes time, and the pathways your mind creates will be better for it, a resource you can reuse again and again.
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@badadvicehq
If you intend to be smarter and more intelligent, and network effortlessly, then you certainly can't rule out the place of reading. I was going up to 20 books per year, but that went down to 10-12 because life gets in the way. I'd like to increase my yearly count to 50.
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It’s much easier to feel right about stuff than to actually be right 🤷‍♂️
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TLDR: read or you'll end up behind bars 👮🏻‍♂️ 🚔
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This is my sign to go on another reading bender 📚 Also, just learned what the word simulacrum meant, so thank you for that😁🙏🏼
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Oof. 😬 Long live books!
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@dulcierolon7h
Books provide much more insight on a topic. Social media are designed to pack information in a brief form.
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@vizualobserver
from the Michael Lewis book?
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I've really fallen off the book reading habit since I got on WC, thanks for the encouragement and logic to back it up ❤️‍🔥 🍖x123 25 $degen
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