In my experience, the trick is to accumulate lists of books, links, people, and other potential interests, etc., and dip into them whenever you aren't preoccupi

In my experience, the trick is to accumulate lists of books, links, people, and other potential interests, etc., and dip into them whenever you aren't preoccupied (in lieu of checking what the Attention Merchents want you to [1]) to get your mind going, not forcing yourself on any particular one, and over time you end up using a lot of free moments to continuously ponder the small bits you glimpsed, until one day it strikes you that one particular book is so obviously worth your time that you devour it. (The process is sort of like an avalanche.) [1] https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-Heads/dp/0385352018 https://www.amazon.com/Attention-Merchants-Scramble-Inside-H...