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Don’t use reading as a substitute for thinking

Don’t use reading as a substitute for thinking

Schopenhauer was very clear: ‘Reading is a mere surrogate for one’s own thinking.'

Two main problems concerned him:

  • Opportunity cost. When you're reading, you could be thinking for yourself. This is only a problem if the kind of thinking you do while reading is significantly different from the kind you do when you are not reading. 
  • Originality. Reading inserts foreign thoughts into our own, which never really belong to us.

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