The first time I heard someone compare reading to robbery, I felt my blood boiling with excitement.

He said reading is a legal heist—the lowest threshold, highest return borrowing of life in the world.

You spend the price of a cup of coffee and walk away with a genius's lifetime of thinking; you spend a few hours and finish seeing all the pitfalls someone else spent decades stumbling through.

This isn't learning, this is cheating. This is the cheapest, most cost-effective time travel in human history.

If you don't read, your worldview is actually shaped by the few people closest to you. Your level of awareness, your thinking height is just their average level.

But reading allows you to dialogue directly with emperors from over 2,000 years ago, philosophers from over 100 years ago, and top-tier experts—even while stuck in the gutter.

You think the pain and confusion you've experienced is unique, that no one can understand it. But reading will let you discover: everything you've experienced, countless brilliant people have already experienced it, suffered through it, and solved it. The answers are in books!

So read more, observe more, learn more.
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