why do you read books ?

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To escape from reality

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It's cause it makes you realise that there's a world around you. With people and stuff. You can miss that when you're in consulting.

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Helps we travel in pandemic

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I can definitely relate to this 😇

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Its helps me clear my mind.
Btw any good recommendations?

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Anything interesting. No bias to any genre:p

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To be all the things I could only be in my mind.

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For me it's all about knowing more and challenging my beliefs

Not to absorb but to get soaked in what I read, ideas, thoughts, imagination etc

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This is for the working professions with terrible WLB. How do you find time to read books on your week days ?

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