Let me insert one more: you have to spend some time with your own thoughts. Whatever you read, whatever you listen to, if you do not actually stop to consider

Let me insert one more: you have to spend some time with your own thoughts. Whatever you read, whatever you listen to, if you do not actually stop to consider it, by taking a long walk without headphones or scribbling in a notebook perhaps, you can’t know what you think. And I suspect this is what’s happening to a lot of people. It’s easy to perform a psychological DDOS on yourself with doomscrolling or YouTube or podcasts or cable news in a way that’s actually really hard to do with a 500 page book.