I read far fewer books these days, but the ones I do read usually end up being magic bullets, precisely curing a particular mental block.
10 years ago, books were more like broad-spectrum antibiotics.
20 years ago, they were more like food.
30 years ago, they were placebos.
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Is it also because many books are repetitive after having read enough so the only things holding your interest are ones that break specific mind blocks?
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I’m wary of concluding that. I may lump A and B together because the topic doesn’t interest me, but others may see useful distinctions where I see a stub idea.
It’s a sort of branch-and-bound search I guess
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