Reading

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

— Gustave Flaubert

Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk book is out. It kicks off with the following quote: "To anyone I've offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?"

TED’S 24 RULES FOR READING

1. Reading shouldn’t be a goal —instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit .


2. It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, something you look forward to each day. That’s why setting too many reading goals will be counterproductive. It will put pressure on you, and that’s the opposite of relaxation.


3. Remember that this is a

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Reading is alluring. It has a nameless quality beyond satisfying desires for information and pleasure. Despite more colorful and interactive media, reading text somehow remains more refined, more seductive.