A few years ago, if you told me you read books religiously, I would’ve looked at you weirdly and thought you were an unsociable geek.
That’s exaggerating, of course, but I really didn’t view reading as something that normal every day people could do to learn, challenge, and grow their intellectual vitality.
Turns out, it’s only because I hadn’t read enough yet.
Now, I read close to 40 books a year on everything from fiction and fantasy to mindset, startups, and investing.
The more I read, the more that number is increased with time.
After all this, I’ve found reading exceptional books every day does five amazing things.
Let me do my best to explain them.
First, reading books transports you in an environment that is out of your own head for once.
You can pick any author, any genre, any story to get you out of thinking about every small part of your life and instead transcend into something much more beautiful.
A story well written that resonates with you deeply can quite literally inspire action for the rest of your life.
Reading and telling stories whether it be fake or life-changing advice is as old as language.
Two, reading more and reading higher quality content makes you a better writer.
Why is it important to become a better writer? It’s an integral part of communication in general.
The better you can put what is in your head into words, either verbally or on paper, the more clear of a thinker you will become.
It’s simply essential to have a clean, uncluttered way of thinking/communication to live a good life.
Next, if you pick the right books you can get learnings and teachings from every discipline and it’s all usually through experiments and mental models of the author themselves.
You can take these learnings and directly apply them to your life immediately.
This particular point is true for any content of course but I’ve found books are the best collections of high-quality content that I remember the most.
Another important point is that books contain the wisdom and learning from thousands of years ago.
You cannot find that in any other piece of content.
Books are the only way to get into the minds of some of the wisest people that have ever walked on earth.
Take a second to realize this.
You can read the teachings from the books of the smartest people in the world, right at your fingertips.
Unbelievable, right? My last love point for books is that they are an incredibly entertaining and flexible way to consume content.
If you are looking at social media whether it be youtube, Tiktok, or twitter, while you may think you are in control of the content you are seeing.
Most of the times that’s not the case.
With books, you are in charge of every step in the process from picking the book to flipping each page.
You, and you only, are in control of everything.
It’s something you are actively taking part in, instead of passively wasting your mind on.
This also allows you to be incredibly picky with the content you are consuming, only choosing the only most quality, high value-adding novels.
I hope this all gives you a reason to stop reading my blog post now, and just pick up any of the books I listed in my website!!!