The Purpose of Reading...

Reading is like practice for the good life I know I DESERVE to live. June 09, 2021 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [WEBSITE]( [Altucher Confidential] [Warning] Do you enjoy receiving Altucher Confidential? Please [Click Here Now]( so we know to continue sending you Altucher Confidential for free! “Reading is like practice for the good life I know I DESERVE to live.” [Email Masthead] The Purpose of Reading… By James Altucher External Advertisement [Bitcoin Billionaires Are Buying THIS (Get the ticker)]( [Click to play, Cryptos Next Trillion Dollar Coin]( over, Bitcoin… Because former hedge fund manager and crypto expert Teeka Tiwari just revealed billionaires have started piling into another coin. [And in this replay of his recent livestream event, he gives you the name of the coin for free.]( Following Teeka’s advice can be incredibly lucrative. He recommended Bitcoin in 2016 when it traded for just $428. Since then, it’s soared to over $60,000… Giving readers the opportunity to multiply their money 120X! But now, Teeka is recommending another coin… [Get His Next Top Crypto Pick For Free Now]( 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 5 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 with 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 idiot. 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 seven 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. No more banks. No more accountants. No more Wall Street? [Man, seated and looking stressed, in front of an arrow crashing downward]( new type of Internet could change everything in the coming years… But your chance to profit from it could start in the coming days! [Click here for more details.]( 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 are 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. [James Altucher in a bookstore, reading] 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 Billionaire Leaves Crowd In Shock [sky]( audience of a few hundred (including myself) quietly gathered in Washington D.C. a few months back. That’s when the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, took the stage… and shocked the entire room. It all has to do with this image you see on your screen… showing a surprising new discovery he’s made. Not only will this blow you away… it could also transform the American economy forever. 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