The Purpose of Reading...

Reading is like practice for the good life I know I DESERVE to live. July 20, 2020 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [WEBSITE]( [Altucher Confidential] “Reading is like practice for the good life I know I DESERVE to live.” [Enable Images To See More] The Purpose of Reading… By James Altucher COMING DOWN WEDNESDAY MORNING [Please Enable Images]( the time the market opens Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., it will be too late [to see this.]( If you’re lucky enough to see it, you’ll see how [this 90-second demo]( could have a massive impact on your money, your leisure, your family and your life. [Click here now to watch this urgent video demonstration.]( Reading is the worst “invention” ever. Reading is like a mental death squad. On average I’ve read about 10 hours a week since I was 5five years old. Some weeks more, some weeks less. That’s 23,400 hours of reading. That’s about 11 work years (the average person works 2,000 hours a year). I could’ve done something with my life within that time. I could’ve spent those 23,400 hours, at the very least, as a fireman and saved lives. So, in order to justify this blatant abuse of the precious life we were intended to live, I need to come up with some reasons to say why reading is good. HERE: A) YOU’RE A PSYCHO VAMPIRE When you read a book, in just three–10 hours, you absorb the entire life of the egomaniac who thought he was important enough to write a book. You suck in his life, learn from it, spit out the pseudo-intellectual vomit that makes up the rest. Now you’re one life ahead of everyone else. Repeat. B) YOU’RE INSECURE SO YOU WANT TO BE BETTER THAN EVERYONE Want to crush your brother-in-law in status? Read a book about how to play better tennis/golf/Nascar racing or whatever he is into. Books are great virtual mentors. Want to get rich? Read five books about Warren Buffett. Want to win trivia games? Read all sorts of books about the Civil War. Want to argue economics with someone just to prove how smart you are? Read a textbook and pretend to know about Keynesian economics. Books are a great way to get status over other people since 99.999% of the people I know can’t finish even a single book per year. C) YOU’RE AN EGOMANIAC The best way to write better is to read better. If someone just sits down and writes an article or book and thinks it should be good because they have “talent” then they are an idiots. It’s really hard to write well. I feel like eye-vomiting when I read most people’s articles or books. The best way to write better is to read lots of good books and then spend thousands of hours writing. But start with the good books. Who is good? Who knows. Always before I write, I read for an hour or so to get my brain all ready to write. And the only reasons someone writes is because they think they have something important to say. Hence the egomaniac part. There are seven7 billion people on the planet. Why should people listen to you? But they will if you fool them into it by good writing. And you get good by reading. The Last Laugh: Why this NYC comedy club owner is laughing all the way to the bank… [Please Enable Images]( in on comedy, former hedge fund manager and Wall Street insider James Altucher says the income secrets he used to purchase his dream business are no laughing matter… Today, he pulls back the curtain and shows how it’s possible to start earning $1,500… $3,500… even as much as $10,000 a month working from your own home. In fact, he has over 177 little-known income secrets you can use to change your life starting today… [Watch this video to find out more now >>]( D) YOU HATE YOUR LIFE When I hate my life, I often read thrillers, science fiction, or other page-turners (yes, even romance). Maybe I’m unhappy in my job. Or I have no friends. Or my relationships areis awful. Reading is like practice for the good life I know I DESERVE to live. It’s a safe way to practice. Nobody gets hurt but you get absorbed into the world of the book almost as if you were really alive there. It’s voluntary schizophrenia. Reading is not natural. We did not evolve to read squiggly black lines on a piece of paper. For one thing: our genes are the same as human beings 250,000 years ago. Human beings didn’t have papers or word processors or even typewriters then. They didn’t even have pens. So our eyes and brains are not supposed to handle reading. The only people who read are egomaniac, voluntary schizophrenics who want status over others. They have to be, or why would they subject their eyes to such torture? Imagine being in a typical big bookstore. About 10,000 books, and. 9,999 of them are awful. A bookstore is the warehouse of evil. And most books are envelopes of souls. Don’t sell your life by slipping into the wonderland of books. Unless you really have to. [library] Also: In all 10 Star Wars movies I have never once seen Yoda (or anyone, for that matter) read. Nobody reads in other galaxies! Shame on me once! Sincerely, [James Altucher] James Altucher Even if You Don’t Read Dirty Magazines… Here’s one time you should’ve… [Please Enable Images]( 1981, a dirty magazine published an article that had the potential to make its readers filthy rich. They interviewed the author of Microcosm in 1990, Life After Television in 1994, and Telecosm in 2002. Each one of these books issued predictions of new tech that took the world by storm and would gotten you ahead of the millions of people investing in them. Today this same author has a new book and wrote: “The next paradigm could impact over $16.8 trillion in the world economy. 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