/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>15465175
On what subjects?

>>15465181
Mostly pornographic "art" photography

>>15465181
Inspirational jus bee urself books. :^)

do whitepapers count?

>>15465175
does terms and conditions/terms and services count?

>>15465181
judaism

>>15465175
Jack Ma clearly doesn't read any book.
>The average CEO lies about reading lots of books.

READ 100 BOOKS EVERY YEAR
WAKE UP AT 3 AM EVERY DAY
FUCK 20 DIFFERENT GIRLS EVERY WEEK
START 50 NEW BUSINESSES EVERY MONTH

PAIN TODAY IS STRENGTH TOMORROW

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>>15465175
This is the secret: I watch this guy called Dan Lok on youtube. He says he reads X books per year (not sure if quite 60 but) he said how he reads a book is he checks the table of contents and goes to chapters that he thinks contains new information. Then he reads some of the first paragraphs and decided if he wants to go further. Once he is done with a book he considers it "read". I think he said he tries to read a book a week. So 52.

So try just picking up a self help book and reading a few chapters and then just putting it down and saying you read it and do that 60 times.

>>15465175
CEO's work you retard.

I read The Berenstein Bears and the Truth (about the Jewish people) 80 times since January
Take THAT Elizabeth Homes

buy my motivation book link is in the bio

>>15465562
This is the secret: Forget anything your normie wagecuck teachers told you in school. You don't need to read every word of a book to fully understand it. You can also use Wikipedia. Facts don't matter, unless you're concocting chemicals or doing surgery. Most people don't know what the fuck they are doing. Case in point: Your teachers who were in elementary, instead of starting their own business or in a field with great pay.

I cannot count how many years I lost from my life listening to these former wagecuck's advice, because they were an authority. Everyone does it, just either not very good at it or they don't set their sights far.

The only people that care about books facts are nerds and antisocial insufferable people. Think about it. None of them will bring you money, get you laid, or provide happiness. Normies are not going to argue with you. Normies are more likely to buy things on impulse. People will money will not research reviews for products/service for three hours because time = money. Good looking women who are attracted to you won't argue with you.

Tell everyone you have read one book a day, then just read the Wikipedia summary of it.

>>15465181
yaoi and dickgirls

>>15465562
Reading a book once and ditching it is fucking useless for 99% of people.
If you want to be efficient you have to read the book, extract the relevant content and put it in flashcards like with Anki for example.

Otherwise you will just forget the all content in few weeks.

>>15465193
Lmfao seriously

>>15465509
50 new businesses? Wow. That must be quite an achievement.

>>15465562
Lol. I can’t believe it. Who would take in advice from a hack like dan lok.

>>15465562
This lol. People just skim for new information and ideas. Can be helpful if youre good at getting the important bits.

>>15465562
that's fair most books are full of bullshit, and even good books are at least 40% bullshit.
still why does anyone bother reading that shit lmao, books are just consumer garbage these days

>>15466541
arguably reading any book is useless for 99% of people

>>15465600
Berenstain or Berenstein?

>>15465175
reading books !== skill acquisition
docs >>> books

Executives I know use their commute time to listen to audio books.
I live six minutes from the office so I can't.
I prefer to read my books the old fashioned way: don't and watch TV instead.

>>15466934
Audio books are books for retards.

>>15466838
>>15466934
CEOs are just high functioning normies

>>15466953
Retards with six-figure salaries I guess.

>>15465175
No you fucking wouldn't. You'd just play vidya or browse 4chins. Lying faggot

>>15465175
Dude just learn how to program

>>15465175
No you wouldn't u fuckin pleb

>>15465181
my ceo was unironically reading a book about slavery and how racial diversity keeps them submissive since it’s harder to form groups that wants revolution
pretty much what’s happening to eu capitals

>>15465175
they really dont read no 60 fucking books a year.
im sure they are all lying about how much they actually read.

>>15467252
>Imagine being such a brainlet that you cannot comprehend people being better than you.

Anon I am sorry.

Playboy and Penthouse don't count as ''books''

>>15467263
i bet u honestly fall for lots of scams and are unironically a terrible investor

>>15466755
yes

>>15465175
/lit/fag here I read easily 30-40 books a year. business, self help, marketing, psychology, also some scifi and fantasy novels. readers are leaders and the more you learn the more you earn. not surprising that /biz/ is full of anti-intellectual plebs really since its full with bottom feeding losers hoping for their ponzicoins to moon instead of building real businesses and delivering value in the real world. stay poor and dumb you plebs.

>>15466934
>>15466953
i noticed execs listen to audio books then claim they "read" the book--nobody remembers shit from an audio book--you zone out constantly. so dumb

>>15467345
You can easily, EASILY, read a book every day. I am in awe that people can't do this. Read during your commute to work, and read as soon as you get home until bed time. Work out 3x a week.
I read 400 words per minute with 85% comprehension and retention (I've been tester) so that's a page a minute. In 5 hours that's 300 pages. I can easily do 400 pages a day. Now obviously a book like middlemarch will take maybe 2 days at that speed, but for most good books 400 pages will finish that sucker. I definitely do 5 books a week.

>>15467263
> imagine thinking people are better than other people based on the arbitrary amount of books they read in a year

jesus christ dude, i hope your life isn't as shitty as you make it fucking sound

>>15467580
Shit tier larp

>>15467605
>If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.
- Hipster hoes on OkCupid in 2007.

>>15465181
Jack chick tracts and tijuana bibles, mostly.

>>15467475
YOU zone out constantly, it's not that hard to listen when you're not autistic.
Also depends on the audiobook and the effort put into the production of it.

If you're reading more than 1 book a month, you're wasting your fucking time.

>>15467680
How can you be productive while listening to an audio book? Multitasking doesn't exist.

>>15465175
That breaks down into 5 books per month, which is more than a book per week. I'm supposed to believe the people with supposedly the most demanding job in a corporation read more than a book a week? When I had the entire day to myself and actually read for more than 8 hours a day it still took me two weeks to read a book, although it was more for entertainment. I'm guessing by "book" they mean magazine

Also, my CEO is a pathetically dumb thot that was likely hired because the owner wanted to fuck her. She takes orders from the VP who does all of the work the CEO is supposed to do plus his own work. She straight up brought her daughter to work the other day and was playing with toys in the middle of the main lobby for an hour or two.

Can't wait to finally escape this shitshow known as corporate America

>>15467701
Define productive.
A lot of jobs are just busy work, it requires little to no thought. Even a woman could multitask at a lot of the jobs that exist.

Why aren't millenial employees reading books

>>15467731
When you'll work so hard your hands will shake and you'll barely be able to hold the soup on your spoon, reading books will be one of the lasts things in your mind.

>>15466755
Delet

>>15467731
>When I had the entire day to myself and actually read for more than 8 hours a day it still took me two weeks to read a book
>actually read for more than 8 hours a day it still took me two weeks
>8 hours a day
>still took me two weeks

All engineers in my country have a legal requirement to do 50 hours per year of continuing professional development. Skimming through the contents pages of a few self-help books doesn't count.

>>15465920
this anon is pretty much sums it up

>>15467731
If it's decent I finish an average light novel in a 4 hour flight. The more interesting it is the faster I read. I've read around 40 books over 2 months.

>>15465175
I've read more books worth of text than that by browsing 4chan 24/7

>>15465181
Harry Potters and Fifty Shades of Grey

>>15466755
Bernstein

>>15467848
>Define productive.
Requires using your brain and coming up with solutions that take you forward in life or produce something tangible. Can't do that while someone is talking and telling stories.

>>15465175

>Yes, goy. The only way to be successful is to read Chaim Goldsteinberg's NYT best-seller every waking hour.

>>15467345
>delivering value in the real world

You mean economic value. Because let’s face it your faggotry t-shirt company or food truck or what or whatever isn’t truly making a difference. All it is doing is feeding Jews and niggers via tax dollars.

True value is rejecting Jew society and starting a big family off the grid on a farm acreage

>>15468163
You don't think I actually sat down and read for 8 hours straight every day for those two weeks, did you?

>>15468689
It didn't say light novel it said "books". The books I read are usually over 500 pages or so. Recently the CompTIA guide I'm on is still over 1300 pages if you cut out the useless parts. Even regular fantasy books that don't require a lot of critical thinking are at least 300 pages.

Magazines, comics, light novels, short stories. These are not "books" they're entertainment and probably as useful in life as playing video games or watching TV. When someone says they read a lot of books they typically are trying to imply they're a well read individual and appear smart to other people. But how smart is a person when the books they read are say; a garbage truck of romantic novels from the dollar store?

being able to read so much books is a red flag, you won't be able to do that if the books are from somewhere like https://www.sacred-texts.com/

>>15469063
A light novel is around 300 pages. Life of Pi took one flight. I couldn't make it two pages through some certification guide. For technical things I just use the documentation as a reference and slowly the most relevant things become learned.

>>15465175
you already don't work; reading a book worth of words on twitter doesn't count.

>>15465509
Based. If you don't do this stuff you deserve to die in the gutter

>>15465175
>CEOs
>no work
what, you're thinking of owners I'm guessing, CEOs clock insane hours

>>15465175
That's because they are 50+ and can't properly internet.

There's a good chance that neets are the most educated people on the planet.

>>15465281
/thread

>>15469593
We're living in the only period in history in which the rich work longer hours than the poor.

>>15467701
You can walk and listen to an audio book. Healthy and gets the blood to your brain so you are actually thinking as you take in the information.

>>15465175
calling bullshit. I read 60+ books a year and no fucking way do braindead ceo-niggers do that much reading. they're the biggest NPCs i've ever met, having a conversation with them is like listing to a soundbite mix on randomization.
t. has a job in an office and knows the CFO and other big-names
>>15465562
pathetic. i read cover to cover and enjoy it. why even pretend to read books if you don't want to actually read books? it doesn't make your dick bigger, sweetie.
>>15466541
>Otherwise you will just forget the all content in few weeks.
speak for yourself, retard.

>>15467345
>reading anything but classic literature
lmao imagine

Attribution Bias

>>15467345
This.
>>15465920
>>15468670
These are the retards telling you what to do with your money btw. Can't wait the upcoming LARP responses.

I read somewhere that GW Bush had a gentlemen's bet with Rumsfeld or somebody, to see who could read the most books in a year (and by read, they meant READ, not skim the TOC lor isten to it on an audiobook). Bush won with 24 books read. I thought, "Holy shit, the POTUS has time to read two dozen books in a year, what's my excuse?"

So I tried and succeeded (barely). But the more I read, the faster I got. On vacation a few years ago I read a book a day (200+ pages). But that was fiction. I feel like I've been reading this book on reverse engineering forever, and I'm only 10% complete.

>>15467629
>>If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.
I think John Waters said that, originally.

Bottom line: if you don't read you're probably an NPC.

>>15466678
Go read some Kurt Vonnegut you braindead ADHD retard. He's got a collection of short stories called "Welcome to the Monkey House" that even you should be able to get through.

>>15470170
Vonnegut might be a little highbrow for them. Bukowski's Factotum might be more appealing.

>>15466755
It was berenstein in the other timeline where 9/11 never happened and you made it

>>15465175

I'm so fucking sick of these bullshit quotes like a CEO reads 60 fucking books.

I read 100,000 fucking 4chan threads a year. Am I a god? Probably.

>>15470084
Reading is outdated information transfer. It's normie tier way to feel superior over others.

>>15465920
Based. Reading is a meme for children and normies who need opinions injected into them.

>>15471393
>Reading is outdated information transfer.
Reading is faster and more efficient than watching any YouTube video.

>>15471419
>Reading is a meme for children and normies who need opinions injected into them.
So what are you doing on 4chan?

>>15471419
I don read and i dun did just gud

>>15468707
aesthetic. sauce?

>>15465562
Dan Lok is such a gay faggot. Fat and manlet too.

>>15467345
>the more you learn the more you earn
i know more than anyone richer than me on pretty much any topic

>>15471606
>Reading is faster and more efficient than watching any YouTube video
depends on the video and the topic. youre not going to be able to learn faster reading in a topic that has a physical demonstration, for example.

>>15466755
It was absolutely berenstein

>>15465193
That would explain the arrogant and egotistical attitudes of many CEOs.

>>15465509
I have none. I learned from Lei Feng's good example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3NJf9GtvCw

>>15465181
Pokemons

>>15465920
This could work for novels but technical subjects cannot be summarized without leaving out vital informations

>>15471740
>Proves reading is outdated [for] information transfer.

>>15472230
Not all subjects can be physically demonstrated

>>15472257
Does not prove reading is outdated.

>>15466541

What the absolute fuck top kek

>>15472447
Never said it was. Reading books are outdated

>>15471344
b&r

>>15472222
1.) Checked.
2.) Ahem. Fuck you.
3.) You don't need back-to-front technical knowledge to be successful.
4.) I read The AoE, K&R, Hardware/Firmware Interface Design, and Solid State Electronic Devices at rate that I needed to reference them. Didn't plow through them in one go. Application notes and datasheets go a long way, but for the most part, any industry executes on rules of thumb. Even semiconductor design. There are many successful designers who fly on intuition and never run into a wall in review. You don't retain what you read in a technical manual. You retain what you practice. Nobody reads these books straight through. You read them for fun and use them for reference.
This is what traps many home trading technical market analysts.They study the shit out of n-day MAs and regression models, but fail to realize that intuitive understanding of dynamic market forces and anomalies shape your analysis strategy, and your 99-day EWMA crossover is almost certainly garbage. Seeing desperate people throw their money at a strategy from a one-day Youtube search baffles me.

>>15472756
So reading a physical book is outdated, but not on a Kindle?

>>15465920
I’ll try it, if anything normies will eat it up and treat me like some sort of celestial being. Could also work to get my gf to give me more bjs then she already does which is a lot.

>>15466541
T. Brainlet

>>15467127
Did you make sure shekelberg asshole was clean after wagie scum?

>>15467345
That’s a lot of projecting....yikes..cringe and bluepilled

>>15472994
No any (((published))) book is basically a piece of crap.

>>15470084
If you are the type that goes to a stranger's home to fuck, reading books is the last of your concerns. Get STDs sack of shit.

>>15473090
>being this mad
I didn't say it, nor do I agree with it. I merely stated the quote's source.