Don't read what everyone else is reading

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• Mastery –– Robert Greene
  
  • If you read the same books as everyone else, you'll think the same way as everyone else. [[don't read what everyone else is reading]] - you become the media you consume.
• The Power of Multi-Disciplinary Thinking
  
  • [[don't read what everyone else is reading]]
    • As we read more and more, we get less inclined to pick up the books that everyone else is buying. A lot of what are best sellers today are going to disappear in 10 or 20 years, thought they may be relevant today. They don't contain real nuggets of knowledge.
    • There's a reason books from the 80s and 90s are still in print, because they've stood the test of time. If you're going to invest time in learning, the way to do that is to think about what makes the most sense for us.