Read What You Love Until You Love to Read - Akira the Don, Naval Ravikant

The foundation of learning

Is reading

I don’t know smart person who doesn’t read

And read all the time

The problem is

What do I read

How do I read

Because for most people its struggle and a chore

So, the most important thing is to learn how to educate yourself

And the way to educate yourself is to develop a love for reading

Read what you love until you love to read

Read what you love until you love to read

Read what you love until you love to read

It’s that simple

Everybody I know who reads a lot love to read

And they love to read because they read books they loved

It’s a little a bit of a catch-22

But you basically want to start off just reading wherever you are

And then keep building up from there until reading becomes a habit

And then eventually you will just get bored of the simple stuff

You may start up reading fiction

Then you may graduate to science fiction

Then you may graduate to nonfiction

Then you may graduate to science or philosophy or mathematics or whatever it is

But take your natural path

And just to read the things that interests you

Until you can understand them

And then you’ll actually move the next thing

And the next thing

And the next thing

Read what you love until you love to read

Read what you love until you love to read

Read what you love until you love to read

It’s that simple

At some point there’s too much out there to read

And even reading is full of junk

There are actually things you can be especially early on

That will program your brain a certain way

And then later

Things that you read you will decide whether those things are true or false

Based on the earlier things

So it is important that you read foundational things

And the ultimate is when you walk into a library

And you look at it up and down

And you don’t fear any book

You know that you can take any book off the shelf

And you can read it

You can understand it

You can absorb what is true

You can reject what is false

And you have a basis for working that out

That is logical and not purely based on opinions

Read what you love until you love to read

Read what you love until you love to read

Read what you love until you love to read

It’s that simple

The beauty of the Internet is the entire Library of Alexandria

Times 10 is at your fingertips at all times

It is not the means of education

Or the means of learning are scarce

The means of learning are abundant

It is the desire to learn that’s scarce

So, you really have to cultivate that desire

And it’s not even cultivated you have to not lose it

Children have a natural curiosity

If you go to a young child who is first learning a language

They’re pretty much always asking

What this?

What’s that?

Why’s this?

Who is that?

They’re always asking questions

But one of the problems is that

Our educational system

And our way of raising children replaces this curiosity with compliance

And once you replace the curiosity with compliance you get an obedient factory

worker

But you no longer get a creative thinker

And you need creativity

You need the ability to feed your own brain to learn whatever you want

Read what you love until you love to read

Read what you love until you love to read

Read what you love until you love to read

It’s that simple