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Charlie Munger was one of the most successful and respected investors of our time. He helped build Berkshire Hathaway into a $800 billion dollar company. Here are 15 reading tips from the late great Munger: 1) “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who ...

Nassim Taleb spends 30 hours every week reading books. Here are 27 reading tips from @nntaleb: 1) The minute I was bored with a book or a subject I moved to another one, instead of giving up on reading altogether. 2) The trick is to be bored with a specific book, rather than with the act of readi...

21 Reading tips from bestselling author @morganhousel: 1) Every smart person I know is a voracious reader who also says “every smart person I know is a voracious reader.” 2) Years ago I heard Charlie Munger say “Most books I don’t read past the first chapter. I’m not burdened by bad books,” and it...

Author @shaneparrish reads 100+ books a year and has a library of 4,000+ books. Here are 37 tips from him on how to read more & better: 1) Reading is a long-term investment I make in myself. I don’t have the time not to. 2) When it comes to reading, my philosophy is simple: Skim a lot of books. R...

Mortimer Adler literally wrote the book on how to read a book. Here are 27 powerful reading tips from him: 1) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. 2) It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but...

10 Mental models that will make you a better reader: 1) Lindy Effect 🏛️ Read more old books–the longer a book has been around, the longer it will stick around. A book that has been useful for the past 80 years will be useful for the next 80....