🦾 The most important habit
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Better Humans,
I believe a reading habit will change your life.
As a college dropout, my success is the result of reading books. There is no greater reason I can point to.
Books are how I started multiple businesses and dealt with losing my dad at 18. (Stoicism was foundational)
Books are how I connect with my kids at bedtime
Books improve my creativity
Books calm me
Books strengthen my resolve
Books improve my confidence
Books make me more unique and knowledgeable and interesting
I have been reading 100ish books a year for a few years now. Before, I didn't have any reading goals. I would just read when interested or trying to solve a problem.
It's mindboggling to me how underutilized books are, and reading and writing for that matter. I know people that try to “think” their way to success. They believe that as long as they "think" about a problem in their life, the solution will somehow appear or that they've "done the work" and deserve a positive outcome.
What a farce. We all do it, so let’s just accept it with compassion and focus on improving.
Writing things down, going deep into research, and thinking and writing through obstacles is what winners do it. Everyone else is just floating through space, waiting for randomness to strike.
What a terrible way to do life.
I can easily say this because I've seen it as the rule with people rather than the exception.
The unfortunate reality is:
Most people don't write things down
Most people have not made a pro/con list in their entire lives
Most people have never spent 2 hours diving deep into a specific problem (and most don't even try googling their problem)
Reading works when it's a habit. If I could give you one piece of advice that will help you for the rest of your life, it would be: to develop a reading habit.
Some ideas to help you with that include:
Audiobooks (Audible and Scribd, and YouTube): Listen to driving, walking, doing dishes, and work up to 2x speed.
Kindle paperwhite (so no blue light at night). Read in lowlight before bed, ideally fiction.
Try a midafternoon reading break. Grab a book and read outside, in a hammock, or while walking on a treadmill for 15 minutes.
Try physical books if you get distracted by screens.
Read at night on an iPad that you connect to your TV via airplay. This also helps regenerate your eyesight, which is something I’m working on with my new workstation… 43" monitor and two standing desks.
Reading will:
Make you smarter.
Increase your self-awareness.
Improve your people skills since you'll better understand human psychology
Make you more patient.
Make you better at living in the moment.
Reset your dopamine levels that's been destroyed from too much screen use
Make you more productive at work.
And better at just about everything else that matters.
🌎 World 🚨
If you uninvited family members in the recent past due to their vax status, you are...
This is fitting since we have monkeys running a country of 300million+
Great thread on more nonsense in the food industry:
Ya, so if you sell drugs, you better report it on your taxes… 🫡
Actors reading scripts their rich overlords hand them.
So when men become more “men”, they tend to lean right. I wonder why that is?
I remember.
Solid recipes
lol
How some people believe communism is a good idea shows exactly why it doesnt work in the first place: HUMAN NATURE.
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What method are you using to regenerate your eyesight? Any website or video you would recommend?