12 Inspiring quotes on reading, learning and books by @naval 🧵
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1) Read what you love until you love to read.
~ Naval
~ Naval
2) Books make for great friends, because the best thinkers of the last few thousand years tell you their nuggets of wisdom.
~ Naval
~ Naval
3) Read a lot – just read. Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within seven years.
~ Naval
~ Naval
4) The means of learning are abundant – it’s the desire to learn that is scarce.
~ Naval
~ Naval
5) Read everything you can. Develop a love for it. There’s no such thing as junk. Just read it all. Eventually, you’ll guide yourself to the things that you should and want to be reading.
~ Naval
~ Naval
6) Reading a book isn’t a race—the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed.
~ Naval
~ Naval
7) I always spent money on books. I never viewed that as an expense. That’s an investment to me.
~ Naval
~ Naval
8) Read enough, and you become a connoisseur. Then you naturally gravitate more toward theory, concepts, nonfiction.
~ Naval
~ Naval
9) No book in the library should scare you...You should be able to take any book down off the shelf and read it. A number of them are going to be too difficult for you. That’s okay—read them anyway. Then go back and reread them and reread them.
~ Naval
~ Naval
10) The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower.
~ Naval
~ Naval
11) It's not about "educated" v "un-educated." It's about "likes to read" and "doesn't like to read.
~ Naval
~ Naval
12) Number of books completed is a vanity metric. As you know more, you leave more books unfinished. Focus on new concepts with predictive power.
~ Naval
~ Naval
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