Can you get smarter without reading books?

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I eat glue instead and it seems to be working

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Reading books don't make you smarter . Learning from them do.

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You can get dumber by reading some books

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So much media out there on the internet, no one needs to read a book anymore if they don’t want to

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Nope. Impossible. No one ever got any smarter until writing existed.

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One can get smarter by just living and getting older…the question is what do you want to get smarter about, how deeply/quickly and why. Avoiding books is, usually, not smart.

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I prefer to run with scissors. But this could be why I’m in consulting 😂

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This deserves all the likes

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Yes and know

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More sleep.

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I don’t know which area or topic you want to focus on but I wanted something similar before some years.

I started reading Quora. It is a nice app where people write questions and experts or general people answers. That gave me so much different perspectives about current affairs, history , science, specific topics and so forth.

Now, when I am in different day to day discussions and similar points come up, I use analogy of details which I had read or pick up some topic and have discussions with various views.

At least, my family and friends do regard me as a well read guy now with pretty good outlook of my surroundings.

I think it depends upon your reading history build up, whom you follow and what content you like. I still use it and pretty okay with what I get as content.

In Flowers for Algernon there's a whole description. But that's a novel, so that might not count. Also, it doesn't go so well.

I’ve always read a lot and think it makes me more empathetic

I read books about Critical Race Theory but now I can only brainwash innocent children

Oh I thought you were being “that guy” sorry C1. I’m with you

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