Once I let go, I rediscovered the joy in reading?—?something I haven’t felt since I was a teenager, skipping classes to read Nietzsche or Albert Camus.
It was one of those rare occasions where you take someone’s advice, apply it to your life?—?and the results are instant and overwhelming.
This essay is an exploration of Naval’s approach to reading non-fiction.
That for me was a tragedy, because I grew up on books, and then I switched to blogs and then I switched to Twitter and Facebook, and then I realized I wasn’t really learning anything, I was just taking little dopamine snacks all day long.”
Are you stuck on some book right now?
I gave it a month, then two, then three.