> Pick up some Steinbeck or Vonnegut or something. Trust me, it'll help you a lot more than a self-help blog post or Six Ways To Engage Your Customers This is

> Pick up some Steinbeck or Vonnegut or something. Trust me, it'll help you a lot more than a self-help blog post or Six Ways To Engage Your Customers This is a false dichotomy, both are helpful. However, there something to be said about stepping outside the 'filter bubble', and acquiring varied skills/interests/viewpoints is always helpful. Why? Because it is in learning novel things that the brain actually gets stimulated and reshapes itself to become more optimal (thanks to a little thing called neuro-plasticity). Right now, due to our inefficient learning processes and media bombardment, we all get so overstimulated that we feel like deer in headlights with poor time management skills, and we end up unusually paranoid about what we consume. There is something to be said about what could be ‘worthwhile’ to read for some people, but we seem to over complicate the algorithm by which we calculate this as if it were some kind of fragile balance between 'good and evil' that we need to actively maintain. It’s really quite simple: if you’re interested in something, read up on it! Simple as that. Furthermore, if some tangent sparks your curiosity along the way, follow up on that as well. The sheer fact that you’re even remotely interested in the thing you’re reading about will ensure some level of efficient learning, so go and indulge. Due to the way memory works (recognition in particular, or ‘pattern matching’ memory), the brain has the capacity to operate like a fairly sophisticated machine learning algorithm, so keep feeding it data and don’t worry so much about what you’re gonna get out of it, cause your brain is gonna sort that all out later anyway.