Not being a "reader" is shit

[Anonymous No.11242251]

My observations led me to the realization that there are really two types of people in the world: people who get most of their information from the written word, and people who get most of their information through some type of social mechanism.

The latter can include teachers, colleagues, boards, friends with the same interests, etc. It's where 95% of the people are, including me. When I want to learn something my first instinct is never to read about it, at best skim through a few articles before I'm directly talking to people and getting information though them.

But I've had some friends who were readers, and now that I'm in my late 20s I can compare and see how this simple habit can change your life totally. In school the difference is tangible, but you assume it won't translate into the real world. Wrong. People I know who read a lot, can come up with study plans and to their own research are miles ahead of the rest of us when we both try to learn something. Not only intellectual hobbies: this bookish kid who started lifting with me when I was 19 seemed to know more about lifting after a couple of months than me and my friends, who mostly learned talking to trainers and others with experience, knew after years, because they read the source. When me and some friends were experimenting with music production, one kid soon knew the theory and the mechanisms of the DAWs we used, while the rest of us tried to learn just messing around. When we start debating something about politics or whatever, it's always the same guy that knows a lot more than the rest of us. When cryptocurrencies became big, we talked about buying some eventually while one of our friends read it about, read strategies, and made money out of it. I'm still planning to get into it "eventually".

Because learning through people is slow and limited. You're often playing some type of telephone game with the information itself, it's slower, you're limited by the person's understanding of the subject and didactic skills, it's harder to remember, etc. Having a natural inclination to read is a huge skill, and I hate myself for not having it.

[Anonymous No.11242256]

>>11242251
>Having a natural inclination to read is a huge skill, and I hate myself for not having it.
yeah but to develop that you have to *actually* want to know something, not ape around and desire shit just because your buds do too

[Anonymous No.11242273]

>>11242251
Read Age of Innocence. It will cure your non-gentled mind.

[Anonymous No.11242275]

>frogposter

[Anonymous No.11242279]

>>11242275
No!!!! Akari would never hurt an anon!!!!

[Anonymous No.11242287]

>>11242251
Thanks for the update on your life, kiddo. Did you have a question or did you just want to ruminate in a self-indulgent monologue?

[Anonymous No.11242298]

>>11242251
It’s not an innate thing that you can’t acquire bro. You literally just sit down and read, leave your phone in the other room, focus for 25 pages or 10 pages and don’t stop until you finish, then build it up slowly over time. It’s just a habit like any other.

[Anonymous No.11242361]

>>11242275
Ironic