Haritosh SrivastavFounder & Head Coach, Confident Storytelling Hub

I stopped reading 30–40 books every year. 📚

16 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker recounts his former habit of reading 30–40 books annually, spanning topics like Ramana Maharshi, spirituality, and personal development. He observes that many books present contradictory advice, leading to confusion. This realization prompts him to become more selective, assessing the value an author offers before committing to a book. He now favors deep engagement—reading a single book multiple times, extracting resonant insights, and actively implementing them—over the previous strategy of skimming many titles. He advises others to adopt a deep‑reading approach to harvest lasting wisdom.

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I used to read 30 to 40 books every year until I realized this. I call myself a bookworm. I love to read books, and for years I used to get one book after the other. A book on Swami Sree Ramana Maharshi, then a book on spirituality, then a book on personal development. And something started to happen. I realized that a lot of contradicting ideas, a lot of contradicting framework used to happen. Somebody says that wake up in the morning, somebody say that don't sleep until you do this. And this is where I realize that I have to be choosy. First, I need to find out the value of the author, the value that book offers, and then go deep into it. So instead of finishing 30 books, now I take a book and I go through it multiple times. And if it resonates, then I start implementing. So if you are somebody like I used to be, I would advise go deep versus going wide, because when you go deep, that's when you get lot of pearls of wisdom.