Tolstoy wrote that he couldn’t understand, “how some people can live without communicating with the wisest people who ever lived on earth.” That’s what a good book is, the chance to learn from the wisest who’ve ever lived.

A lot of people read. Not a lot of people remember what they read. The knowledge you retain compounds.

Reading is a way of borrowing the best of what other people have already figured out. It’s the life hack no one talks about.