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

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

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.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.