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This is an appeal. To those people ... who are ready to form an opinion about you by asking just one question. They cherish this question and make very big bets on it ... And if you answer it by, you immediately fall into their category of outcasts. They may even try to make you a laughing stock, telling this "truth" to common acquaintances behind the eyes.

A simple example. "Do you read books?". Me not. If the answer is more detailed, I’ll even say that I’m afraid to read books. What a waste of time.

Have you already thought that I am a rare dumbass?

Let's take a look deeper. This question is usually asked by people who saw the book for the first time six months ago, and a month ago they bought their first Coelho. What to read is necessary and useful, they were informed at a personal growth training or at hiring. Yes. They, as a rule, are forgotten to say what needs to be read, and our furious book readers are questioning everyone around them with this question)) Actually, this is how we get to the first lines of this article.

But they are told how much to read !! Something like "A person who considers himself intellectually developed cannot read less than three books a month." Or "fifty two minutes a day."

Therefore, these people set themselves the goal of reading and set aside exactly exactly a few hours a day. You can’t do less. Perhaps reading causes them a real disgust, if so hard to get) And it becomes a matter of pride. That is why, following their first question, the second often follows: "How many hours a day do you read?"

Also, these people do not distinguish between books. For them, the very word “book” is sacred and already inspires highly intellectual awe. Creepy, especially in a world where even Dontsova writes.

Wait a minute! It happens that they are still told what to read. For example, Branson. “To hell with everything, take it and do it!”, “Losing Innocence”. Do you imagine how much more useful it is to watch a video interview with Branson, where, besides his thoughts, you are saturated with charisma, you see the psychophysical essence and open beliefs in direct speech! Suppose someone reads his books “because necessary” (by syllables))), and for the same purpose I watch an interview and take out more of it.

But if you ask the “right” question, do I read books ...

They also consider listening to audio books as reading. Well yoooopan shame ...... know comments.

And how do you like the book "An Easy Way to Quit Smoking"? A person trying to get off his nicotine needle READS BOOKS !!)) I quit smoking with a book 5 times, spending about 30 hours reading each time. I watched the same hour video only two times - the effect is no less. I do not smoke a year and a half. But I don’t read books either ...

Okay, I repent, I read Dontsova.

By the way, this is another example of a dumb check. There is one.
We rephrase the classic: “If you have learned all Omar Khayyam by heart, you can retell any Tolstoy’s novel in colors and read one book by Dontsova, everyone will say that you are a reader of Dontsova!”)))

I do not read books because for most of my conscious life I read books instead of taking real actions.