"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." I really like this balanced sentiment at the end

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." I really like this balanced sentiment at the end of the article. It's easier to feel different or weird or out of touch when you affirm for yourself that you're being weird by your own choice - to the extent that you _want_ to be different to everyone else. It's a nice mean between the two extremes of going full conformist or going full hipster.