You’ve Been Reading Wrong Your Entire Life

A Lesson from Marcus Aurelius That Forever Changed the Way I Read

Social media is filled with people telling you,

• “how to devour 1000 pages a day”,
• “how to read 789 books a year”,
• “how to remember every line you read”

…and then they go on to explain a 7-step process that you forget the moment you scroll past the content.

Yet Marcus Aurelius explained it all very simply in a single line 1,853 years ago.

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Let me share a piece of wisdom from the world-renowned book Meditations, that forever changed the way I read…

Skimming Is More Harmful Than You Realize

In a world full of stimuli, where everything and everyone is vying for your attention, we take to skimming through content in an attempt to save time and energy.

But it does more harm than good.

For books that are packed with wisdom without any fluff or redundant examples, skimming only wastes your time by equipping you with a limited understanding of the subject.