There is no point in reading if you are not learning something
Summary
- Even Hitler spent his prison sentence reading, but instead of learning, he said: "I recognized teh correctness of my views"
Details
- Read with intellectual humillity
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There’s little advantage to reading with arrogance or to confirm preexisting opinions either. Hitler, spent his short prison sentence after World War I reading the classics of history. Except instead of learning anything, he found in those thousands of pages only that, as he said, “I recognized the correctness of my views.