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I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.

Here's how I did it.

-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person

-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure

-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.

-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.

-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.

-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.

>> No.11100664

I'm sure this board of readers will appreciate your advice

>> No.11102414

>I read economics and fiction.
hey me too

this post is actually p. inspiring anon, thanks

>> No.11102439

>>11100647
seems kinda redundant to post on a board dedicated to literature, but whatever

what economics-books have you read? ive read a bunch myself, and what i recommend strongest is:
anything by Thomas Sowell
"Why Nations Fail"
"The Road to Serfdom"

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>-Read various books at the same time.

and thats how a nigga have 15 books with 20-100 pages in each of them.

>> No.11102656

>>11100647
>the average person reads like zero books a year
Less than 20 books in a lifetime is an oft-quoted average.

Had a buddy who was superintendent of a region's education and he read 5 books in his life, 4 if you don't count a book of family photos with captions. He just paid some dude he went to high school with to take all his assignments/tests/exams in college.

>Cannot fathom why people don't read moar.

>> No.11103420

What's a good book to learn about economics if I know nothing about economics? Would I be better off reading an econ101 textbook?

>> No.11103499

>>11103420
I got my undergrad degree in econ and would recommend just getting a textbook.

Principles of Economics by Mankiw or Economics by Samuelson are my recommendations. Things like Hayek or Marx that regularly get recommended here aren't a good way to jump into economics.

>> No.11103505

>>11100647
>Buy the physical copies.

What a waste of money. The library has almost everything worth reading for free.

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11103520

can you please fuck off for at least 6 months like last year

>> No.11103705

>>11103499
>>11103420
It depends. I can honestly say economics is an extremely subjective field, and there are many different ways of looking at it.

That being said, it is clear when someone is trying a scientific approach and when someone is trying to mix politics with economics.

Economists like Leon Walras or Vilfredo Pareto (both of the Lausanne School in france) are extremely mathematical economists, and if you know anything about mathematics at all, they are enjoyable reads indeed.

The divide of Keynes and Hayek, whose books The General Theory and Road to Serfdom are essentially polar opposites, marks a sad day indeed for economics. Not sadder than Mises though, who in his book "Theory of Money and Credit", includes an entire diatribe against the left in the last chapter of his book. This is the only economics book I've read which made me feel like vomiting at the end.

To be honest, at least Keynes and Hayek were more academic than Mises.

>> No.11103738

>>11100647
Not Again

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