It’s not really a confession because it takes very little effort or knowledge to read either, and he is obviously a smart and hard working person. Any MBA stude

It’s not really a confession because it takes very little effort or knowledge to read either, and he is obviously a smart and hard working person. Any MBA student can read these; obviously Sam could too. What he is saying is that he doesn’t read them (i.e. chooses not to), and the implication is that he does not need to.