In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.

Charlie Munger

One of the benefits of reading is that it allows you to master the best of what other people have already figured out.

Start books quickly but give them up easily.  Our desire to finish what we start sometimes works against us. Good books finish themselves. You can’t put them down. Trying to finish a bad book, on the other hand, is like walking through the mud with a wheelbarrow full of bricks. Life is too short.

Skim a lot of books. Read a few. Immediately re-read the best ones twice.

Some books only deserve a skim, while others deserve your complete attention. How much effort you put in relates to what you’re reading and why you’re reading it.

The Levels of Reading offer four different approaches to reading (from easiest to hardest). Most of our time will be spent between levels 2 and 3.

Reading speed is a vanity metric. No one cares how fast you read or how many books you read last year. In the real world what matters is what you absorb.

The opportunity cost of reading something new is re-reading the best book you’ve ever read.

The blank sheet primes your brain for what you’re about to read and shows you what you’re learning.

Writing is the process by which we often discover we don’t know what we are talking about.

The point of both conventional notes and the blank sheet is to connect new knowledge to old knowledge and point out gaps in your understanding. Writing about what you read is a great way to see what you’ve learned.

You can’t get where you want to go if you’re not learning all the time. One of the best ways to learn is to read.