You Don't Have Time to Read Books That Won't Chang

🎀 Highlights

4.4 million books you could read and potentially get something out of. The "potentially" is important, because most of them won't do much for you.

In fact, the vast majority of those 4.4 million will be a net opportunity cost for you, because they will suck your time away from reading the few among them worthy of being called Damned Good Books.

A Damned Good Book is a book that changes your life. As you read it, you become a different person.

the magic gems that will make the You of the future.

choose, as one of your goals, to maximize the number of Damned Good Books you read before you die, I doubt you would regret it.

in the first place, and brutal in quitting those that, after reading for a while, turn out to be less than damned good.

Don't ask yourself "can't I read one more page?"—ask "is this already beginning to transform me or not?"