People Don’t Actually Read - David Perell
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Today, the simple act of reading books gives you a huge advantage. If you’re looking for ideas to write about, read more.
People don’t read as much as they say they do. This trend is accelerating too. I’m in a friend group of intellectually curious people, and just about everybody says they’re reading fewer books than they used to. But at the risk of sounding like your 5th grade English teacher, reading books is the easiest way to find good ideas to write about. Another friend, Jeremy Giffon, says that whenever you’re intimidated by a thinker, you should know that 90% of their ideas are regurgitated from books. Their original thought is the other ten percent. Even better, he says: “One advantage of reading
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