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I care to disagree. I read for getting different perspective on life, having fun with ideas presented in a book. So I don't retain much and I don't care about "
by ozim 7y ago
I care to disagree. I read for getting different perspective on life, having fun with ideas presented in a book. So I don't retain much and I don't care about "doing those things" because I am not going to be next Warren Buffet after reading his biography.
What reading does to my mind is that it shapes "personality". I am not going to live by the "How to win friends..." but what I got from it is to be more friendly and open to other people and to be more empathic. I think it kind of stayed with me even thou I read that book once and did not follow recommendations to live by it and challenge myself to do all stuff there is in that book.
Then if you read multiple books and see common ideas presented by many authors you kind of get really great insights that stay for longer than when you read one book. Because then you see that more than one person thinks that way.
- sdoering 7y agoI second this. Between fiction and non-fiction I read (or mostly listened to) 76 books last year and am currently in my 14th book this year. I get contact to a lot of ideas from a lot of different points of view. I am literally bathing my brain in ideas from many different people. Especially when I am listening to fiction these ideas tend to mingle. This year, as an additional step, I am playing with the ideas behind the so called 'Zettelkasten' to better structure the ideas I extract from the books. And to reach a higher level of retention. Non the less I mostly listen to books to relax while commuting. So every idea I gain as additional knowledge is an extra win in my book.
- foogazi 7y ago> these ideas tend to mingle. This is the value I look for too, being able to see references to ideas in other fields. But I don’t know what it will be until I read and make the connection See: Frequency illusion or Baader–Meinhof phenomenon