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Chuckling to myself thinking about someone obsessively optimizing the speed at which they read books with titles like "In It To Win It!", "The Pro Inside You!",
by mjfl 3y ago
Chuckling to myself thinking about someone obsessively optimizing the speed at which they read books with titles like "In It To Win It!", "The Pro Inside You!", "You can do ANYTHING!" "10 Chapters to SUPERCHARGE Your Career."
Real nonfiction books are better not to skim. Pick better books.
- a_bonobo 3y agoExactly! It's a fun natural development -those US breathless sales-based self-improvement books like 4-Hour Workweek, most books that Cal Newport publishes, are often blog-post level ideas inflated into a book for sales. It's only natural that people are finding ways to automatically trim the fat off to go back to the blog-level length. "good" non-fiction like Thinking, Fast and Slow, The Selfish Gene, Structure of Scientific Revolutions etc. are books that are not easy, or even worthwhile to summarise that way. You'd lose too much information.
- finnh 3y ago"The You YOU Are: A spiritual biography of YOU" - Dr Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD