Finding time to read has never been an issue for me. I read different books at different levels — you don’t put the same effort into Harry Potter as you do Seneca. Reading is the best way to get smarter. And while I’ve always taken notes while reading to improve my ability to remember what I’ve read, I’ve had a nagging feeling that I was missing part of the work. Perhaps, I’ve been reading too much and reflecting too little. As I reflect more on the relationship between reading and acquiring wisdom, I discovered Schopenhauer’s classic On Reading and Books. For me, reading has always been about this website’s tagline: Mastering the best of what other people have already figured out. In The Prince, Machiavelli offered the following advice: “A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it.” Seneca, writing on the same subject, said, “Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides.” So it makes sense to start with the people that came before us.
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