Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

READ MORE BOOKS!📚

28 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Reading forces your brain to think harder than everyday conversation does. The speaker argues for consuming more books despite the risk of bad ones, and describes his unscripted style as a creative flow state where ideas come without planning.

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I mean, if I distilled it down to like just one thing, just read something, right? And now I know that that could be counterproductive if you're reading things that aren't helpful. That could happen. But if you read, you're thinking on a level that people don't usually think on when they're just talking. Like even this, right? Like I didn't plan for this. I didn't write anything down. Oh, I'm gonna make sure to mention that. I didn't even know what I was gonna talk about. Doesn't matter, right? Because I'm just plugged into the Geistesblitz. I'm in the zone. I'm in the Tao. The Geistesblitz. I gotta remember that. I'm gonna have to look up the spelling of that. And everything. Maybe that's a new tattoo, Nick, or maybe that's my first tattoo. I don't know. I like that a lot.