Why Thinking Matters More Than Reading

How many books do you read at a time? Are they actual books or electronic?

Do you read in the bathroom? Do you read fiction?

Reading is overrated, I'll tell you that much.

Reading is highly over... Everyone should read.

People are always fixated on my reading habits. "What do you read?

How do you get that smart?" Reading is overrated.

You don't-- It's not about filling your head with, uh, information and ideas.

You need some of it, but what you really need to do is think, okay?

What you really need to do is think. You need to sit and think.

You need to walk and think. You need to drive and think, eat and think.

You need to be thinking. Most people are unthinking.

Unthinking, uncritical, unexamined, and they go through their life, uh, I don't even know, I don't even know what people's state of mind is.

It's almost like they're just not even there.

They're not, they're not chewing on it. They're not working through things, you know?

Me, I, I'm always thinking about something and, and occasionally I have a moment where I go, "Aha.

Mm, there it is." You know? And you can't, you can't force it.

But it's, it's important to be able to think systematically.

It's important to be able to kind of just, um, ponder.

And people are always caught up on reading, and that's so wrong.

"What do you read? Where are you getting this from?"

It's, it's coming from here. It's coming from here. I, I look out at the world.

I observe things. I talk to people. I think deeply about our interactions.

I, I compare and contrast.

So, you know, people, people look at me like I'm some-- like I'm, you know, I'm reading three books at one time, and I just never put the books down.

I, I don't think I... I read probably more than your average person.

I read the news every day, and I'm on Twitter all the time, and I talk to interesting people.

Um, but that's how you get information. I talk to people.

I talk to interesting people. I go on social media.

I read the news, and I think. And that's it.

It's important to read b- you should read a book every day.

I mean, not like a whole book, but you should pick up a book at least, you know, half hour, an hour a day.

You should be subscribed to one of the papers of record, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times.

You should read, you should read the news every day.

You should read a book every day, you know? But don't, you don't need to go crazy.

Most people just aren't that smart. How many books do I read at a time?

I mean, here's what I do lately is I pick up a book, I read about 50 pages, and then I put it down, and I never pick it up again.

Then I pick up another book, I read 50, 100 pages, put it down, never pick it up again.

And I do it with PDFs and regular books.

And I don't read fiction