I used to feel ashamed of being a "slow" reader — now I'm grateful for how naturally my mind interrogates or befriends an interesting text. It's a shame most of us are taught to read under the perverse assumption that the purpose is to "consume" "material."https://twitter.com/naval/status/1184549088949350401 …
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If you want your brain to be a burro, the easiest way to do that is to take something long and pointy and give your frontal lobes a few stirs. If you want a vibrant life of the mind, you have to sometimes do things because you actually fucking want to do them. Reading especially.
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reading a dictionary can actually be wonderfully illuminating!
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i’ve seen a lot of identical bookshelves with no creased spines https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1285749335544655872?s=21 …https://twitter.com/atroyn/status/1285749335544655872 …
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In the old days, people would remove spines entirely. Darwin was said to have made his own indexes into his favorite. I often find searchable copies of books I own. For a while I was just manually scanning some. Destroy your books to love them better
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