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How many hours a day should you read?

>> No.17580723

>>17580711
12.

>> No.17580754

>>17580711
You should read zero hours a day.
You can read any amount you want.

>> No.17580790

>>17580711
Posting twatter shots or tiktok should be bannable offense.

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>> No.17580824

>>17580754
Based. Only bugmen need to be ordered how to live their lives

>> No.17580839

>>17580711

No more than seven I would say. You should spend some time thinking about what you've read.

>> No.17580840

>>17580711
30 minutes minimum.

>> No.17580865

>>17580711
Americans pay 1000$ a month just to have a roof and be allowed in hospitals?

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17580871

The OP image makes me angry

Very angry

I don't like it

I'm mad

>> No.17580949

>>17580711
The only way a 25 year old makes 100k a year is if he works as some code monkey for a tech corporation in Silicon Valley or as a junior trader for a hedge fund in NY. Either way, no way he would spend only $800 on rent if he lived in those places.

>> No.17580981

>>17580711

There's too many variables:

>Does the person live a busy life with a lot of responsibility, or someone who's got an abundance of time to spare?
>How intelligent is the person?
>How fast do they read?
>What kind of books is the person reading?

The minimum is definitely not 0 though regardless of the anwers to those questions. Reading for even just a short ammount a day can form a positive habit which may turn into more and more hours, with more worthwhile books.

>> No.17580990
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17580990

>>17580711
I know pic is unrelated, but where the fuck is "Savings"? At least 10% of income should be saved. $615 for donations? lmao

>> No.17581008

>>17580711
I don’t do any reading but I write for an hour a day

>> No.17581049

>>17580711
Taleb reads between 30 and 60 hours a week. You can read about his reading habits in Antifragile.

Lobo Antunes, the best living novelist, said in an interview:

>O que é que eu faço? Não gosto de ir a bares, não gosto de estar com muita gente. Posso ler. Às vezes nos intervalos dos livros, são três, quatro meses; a gente lê oito horas por dia, mas ao fim de uma semana já está um bocado farta desse ritmo. Mesmo que só se leia o que se goste.

>What do I do? I dislike going to bars, I dislike being with too many people. I can read. Sometimes, during the intervals between the books [I am writing, which last between] three or for months. We can read eight hours a day, but after a week we're already tired of this rhythm. Even if you're just reading books you like.

Tolstoy had many plans in his diary, and he seems to have read something between two hours a day on average, to judge from his plans, but sometimes he would read six hours in a day, or more. But this was during his youth, later on he seems to have become more rigorous with himself.

>> No.17581071

>>17580990
He makes 100k a year but only spends 2.7, do the math genius

>> No.17581076

>>17580711
Where the hell does he live where he is making 100k and only pays 825 for rent?

>> No.17581105

>>17580990
Yearly salary less monthly spending accumulated over the year

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>>17581049
Also, to add a few more.

Borges seems to have been read to for around two hours a day, according to Alberto Manguel (who was the guy doing the reading). This is after he became blind and his mom was already too old to read much to him. Perhaps he had other people read to him too, I don't know. But Manguel would come every night and spend two hours with him.

I also tend to note that the most voracious time of one's reading is during your youth. Vargas Llosa supposedly read Brothers Karamazov in one day, under the effect of amphetamines. In one of his recent chronicles at the newspaper El País he relates that the coronavirus made him go back to that old rhythm, and he started to read ten hours a day again.

During his last years Nietzsche started to criticize the habit of reading too many books. According to one study he seems to have read one book a week during those years. Maybe he used to read more when he was younger.

One minor poet from my country once said in an interview that he reads around five hours a day.

To judge from his book A Guide to Kulchur, Pound seems to have taken a few days (two weeks? don't remember) to finish reading Aristotle's Ethics. But he read it in Greek and probably read other things too during that period. He certainly read many letters (he was an obsessive letter-writer).

In one of his essays, a critic from my country gives the impression of having finished a 200 page book in one day.

Something I notice: writers don't seem to read as much as some critics do. Looking through my personal library, it seems that the authors who I recall as being the most erudite are never the great poets and novelists, but the critics (Bloom, Steiner, Auerbach, Croce, and so on). I suppose that this makes complete sense, because creation takes too much time.

Pound reportedly spent 6 hours a day on the typewriter, which is also the time Noam Chomsky spends answering letters. Vargas Llosa would usually write between 09:00 and 14:00, and says that he would read at night, though sometimes he'd go to the movies or to a theater.
In Tolstoy's diary he seems to give more prominence to writing than to reading.

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>>17581173
Some passages from Tolstoy's diary which I have fixed to my wall as a reminder.

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>>17581253
2/2

The whole diary can be found at the Internet Archives.
Those are just some of the passages that deal with schedules.

>> No.17581301

>>17580949
Junior investment bankers generally make NYC or close to NYC salaries regardless of where they live. It’s a disgusting industry and I would nuke everyone who participates in it if I could.

>> No.17581336

>>17580711
>$615 in donations
>CNBC
Anyway, for lit stuff, no more than 1 hour. But of course, Marxfags will do the opposite.
If we are talking about /x/tier and /sci/ stuff, including analytical philosophy, no more than 2 hours.

>> No.17581416

>>17580949
>The only way a 25 year old makes 100k a year is if he works as some code monkey for a tech corporation in Silicon Valley
Hahahahahaha no. Silcon valley under pays most young people there. Even if you are making 100k in silicon Valley, you're still poor

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>>17581173
when I was a kid I read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2 days

>> No.17581511

>>17581490
Based. Same here. Wish I had the concentration to do that these days.

>> No.17581598

>>17581490
That's probably easy if you are fanatical about a book.
I am completely enthralled by a book I can easily read 300 pages in one day.

>> No.17581663

>>17580711
If you have money problems being single and making six figures, you are the problem.
Seriously how the fuck does he spend $150 a week just on feeding himself? I spend half that and I'm still dirt broke

>> No.17581730

>>17581253
>>17581275
Thanks for posting these, anon. Super interesting. Saved.

>> No.17581740

I don’t donate to charity while Democrats are in power

>> No.17581753

>>17580711
I'd say 4 is a healthy amount but there's no minimum nor maximum

>> No.17581838

>>17581730
You're welcome!

>> No.17582333

Bump.

>> No.17582355

>>17580711
This is the fakest budget breakdown I've ever seen. Lazy lies from CNBC.

>> No.17582542

>house cleaner
>$615 in donations
>$250 every month for dining out
I thought he was good with money?

>> No.17583127

>>17581049
>you can read about his reading habits in Antifragile.
Incel can't even explain the concepts he reads, just lamely tells everyone to "look it up"

>> No.17583384

>>17581253
Just checked 1850 diaries in Russian. There's nothing even similar to rules in your first picture. There's only one rule mentioned - "don't read novels"

>> No.17583394

>donations
What kind of person are they trying to depict exactly?
Maybe 1 in 100 25 year olds tick all those boxes.

>> No.17583473

>>17580990
If you donate money you get a tax deduction. In that example he wouldn't need to pay $7380 in tax
He would part with that money in a way or another

>> No.17583482

>>17583394
1 in 1000 maybe

>> No.17583485

>>17580711
>dining out
>house cleaner
>donations
>400$ on groceries
>$130 for transportation
>good with money
Yeah okay

>> No.17583524

>>17583482
Only kids who went to fancy private schools and we're hired by their fathers company.
Alternatively kids who went to average tier private schools and started working for their dad's construction company.

>> No.17583527

>>17583394
thats all his patreons and onlyfans subs

>> No.17583671

>>17580865
The image isn’t even accurate, it’s made up boomer shit. You want $850 in rent? Go live in the middle of fucking Iowa. These are the same delusional fucks that thing it costs $20 for internet and $40 for your phone bill

>> No.17583679

thanks for such a dishonest thread OP. hope you got exactly what you were expecting