Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Reading Clausewitz makes you take your own thoughts a little less seriously.

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

I'm mad about good books, can't get my fill .