📚 Lots of inputs, strong filters
🌅 Friends,
Today we’ll talk about a simple strategy to become a knowledgable, interesting, enriched reader 📖; how to stop facebook distractions 🌐, and Forrest Gump’s superpower 🏗️.
🧠 Learning strategy: Lots of inputs, strong filters
Morgan Housel wrote an article that is 500 words short about his reading strategy. Start as many books as you can 📚 , quickly eliminate things that you don’t find interesting 📘 . If you start a lot of books, at least one will hook you long enough to read it, and in a couple of years, you’ll have read more books than you thought you ever will, without feeling bad when you set a book aside.
While this is true for books, it is true for all other mediums as well. Online courses, Educational youtube videos, podcast episodes, and articles.
❤️ My favorite things
- 📄 article: Lots of inputs and a strong filter (read time: 1.5 minutes)
The conflict between these two – most books don’t need to be read to the end, but some books can change your life – means you need two things to get a lot out of reading: Lots of inputs and a strong filter. (Morgan Housel)
This chrome extension removes the feed from your favorite distracting websites of choice 🙈 . You can remove the feed from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc., and replaces it with a quote. And like that, you can send your important text or find that important photo without looking at cat memes for hours 🐈 .
- 🍿 Movies I love: Forrest Gump (1994)
I watched Forrest Gump with my friends recently, and it was amazing. I will leave you with this video about Forest and what we can learn from him:
Forrest Gump & The Power of Habit ⚙️
💬 Quote of the week
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” -Mark Twain
Have a meaningful week,
Laith
