Reading Books is both overrated & underrated at the same time.

The quality of the books, how you feel, the actions you take and what you share make a big difference.

Most of my reading is problem driven, each book is a story, that also has a story on why I read it.

Reading is an effective way to learn, but it is not the only way, and it actually benefits with supplemental material to unlock more of the knowledge.

- Videos
- Podcasts
- Images
- Courses
- Workshops
- Conversations

Forcing myself to read more books would have been a waste of time.

It took me 10 years to get to over 450, but I could have done it in 5-6.

I was in the real world working on problems & letting life guide my reading process at a reasonable pace.

I track how much & what I read so that I can better manage my reading in an environment where there are many distractions & incentives not to read.

Left to my own devices I would read tweets, captions, articles, essays instead of books.

When you train yourself to reading short material, you also diminish your attention span for reading slightly.

Reading long-form itself is a form of attention expansion.

There are effective people who don't read much at all.
These are outliers.

There are ineffective people who read a TON.
This is very common.

Have intention behind your reading.

Don't use reading as virtue signaling.

For me reading is gratitude, curiosity and need-based.

There are over 230,000,00 books in the world.
In a lifetime I might only be able to read 2,300.

Reading is an opportunity of a lifetime.

As with most opportunities, it's how you use it and the judgment that counts.

Reading is just one path to learning. Become opposed with the problems & the opportunity, not reading in of itself.