I wouldn't say I "research," but I do learn. I do that by reading books I don't read *that* much (for reference: I read 24 books last year; this year 5, so far

I wouldn't say I "research," but I do learn. I do that by reading books I don't read *that* much (for reference: I read 24 books last year; this year 5, so far). Every month I have a goal of how many pages I want to read. This month it's set at 8 pages per day, but usually I go well above that, only going to 8 pages if I'm not feeling like reading that day, which is rarer and rarer. I also stopped taking notes, it's distracting and makes reading feel like a chore and pretty unenjoyable for me, but YMMV with regards to note-taking. If I feel like I don't understand something, I will go back and re-read that, or re-read the whole book, multiple times if I have to. By re-reading books, you pick up pieces you missed on your first or second time (or third, and so on) reading them. It's also better to read a single book 1000 times than to read 1000 books one time, something I've learned thanks to Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Speaking of Taleb, he recommends not continuing to read a book if it gets boring to you - to be bored of a single book but not of the act-of-reading-itself-type of a deal. I think that's very smart too. I intuitively did that before I read this recommendation of his. Did I mention you should his books? Because you should, everyone should.