Books

It’s a tricky situation, because reading a book you don’t care about, whose topic triggers no interest in you, most likely will not improve for life at all. On the other, challenging yourself, discover new things, reading some “unpleasant” books (I am thinking along the lines of the Anne Frank’s Diary) does expand your horizons and help you develop. And sometimes I read some books I only understood in hindsight, maybe with some help. Off the top of my head I can think of “the man in the high castle” making way more sense after reading its Wikipedia page, or “de Avonden”/“the evenings” clicking in my brain only after a friend of mine told me “it’s a book about PTSD”. While reading the last one, I thought it was quite dull but stick with it just because. Now I’m glad I did. On the contrary, I also stuck with GRRMartin way too long, and nobody is going to give me back those hours. I still think those books are an exercise of “look how many plot twists I can stack!” and I dislike them all.