Stop finishing books.

This is about non fiction books. There is NEVER a good reason to finish one.
I have read consistently for 25 years and have read 60-90% of thousands of books. I own a book store. I'm extremely well read.
Books follow the rule of diminishing returns like everything else.
If you are reading for pleasure or for general learning, then finishing books is holding you back.
>400 page book
>read 300 pages
Why keep going? You think the author left the good parts for 300+ pages in?
Pro tip. He didn't.
You can start a new book, by a new author, on the same subject and gain a massive amount again by hearing a new perspective on the same topic. Or you can move on entirely.
>inb4 butt hurt homosexuals argue
Actually think about it. How much do you gain first 100 pages vs last 100 pages on your typical read?
Apply this logic at large and you will advance intellectually much faster.

Pic related is a great example. I fricking get it. Cecil Rhodes, Anglos, Run the world. I'm moving on.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    That's nice op but have you ever read about anyone who could possibly EVEN TOUCH Madara Uchiha? Let alone defeat him. And I'm not talking about Edo Tensei Uchiha Madara. I'm not talking about Gedou Rinne Tensei Uchiha Madara either. Hell, I'm not even talking about Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Uchiha Madara with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and Rinnegan doujutsus (with the rikodou abilities and being capable of both Amateratsu and Tsukuyomi genjutsu), equipped with his Gunbai, a perfect Susano'o, control of the juubi and Gedou Mazou, with Hashirama Senju's DNA implanted in him so he has mokuton kekkei genkai and can perform yin yang release ninjutsu while being an expert in kenjutsu and taijutsu.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/Vu1PvWt.jpg

      This is about non fiction books. There is NEVER a good reason to finish one.
      I have read consistently for 25 years and have read 60-90% of thousands of books. I own a book store. I'm extremely well read.
      Books follow the rule of diminishing returns like everything else.
      If you are reading for pleasure or for general learning, then finishing books is holding you back.
      >400 page book
      >read 300 pages
      Why keep going? You think the author left the good parts for 300+ pages in?
      Pro tip. He didn't.
      You can start a new book, by a new author, on the same subject and gain a massive amount again by hearing a new perspective on the same topic. Or you can move on entirely.
      >inb4 butt hurt homosexuals argue
      Actually think about it. How much do you gain first 100 pages vs last 100 pages on your typical read?
      Apply this logic at large and you will advance intellectually much faster.

      Pic related is a great example. I fricking get it. Cecil Rhodes, Anglos, Run the world. I'm moving on.

      I've read Tikki Tikki Tembo several times through for my son. I finish those...
      I have a very weak spot with asian literature. So to me you are talking gibberish there.

      I have of course finished many books. If they are really jiving with you and you feel you are still getting a lot, then I'm not saying NEVER finish one.
      But from experience, it's more often than not a waste of valuable time that could have been given to a new book, even by the same author if you like, that adds far more to your knowledge than the last 100 pages of a 600 page book.

      I used to think I need to finish books and I see others suffer from this same, unnecessary, "obligation."

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And yes I realize I said "NEVER" in the OP. But I've been shitposting online since like '94 and that was just a (sad) rhetorical tactic for responses.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What's the best book

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          kek
          The necessary question here is just...in regards to what?
          It will depend on the person, the time of their life, and et c.
          For me, pic related was quite important to my life.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            How do you know you can trust it, you're not a doctor

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            My wife is an MD neurologist. Her best friend and colleague was the head of Neurology at a major Chinese hospital. She raves to her about how smart I am.
            I'm just a homosexual online, but you'll just have to trust that I'm highly intelligent.

            Now, to explain the book though, he is a dentist that traveled the world visiting tribal people and isolated people (gaelic swiss, eskimoes, Africans). You name it, he was there on scene.
            He would compare the tribes or settlements that were isolated (mountain pass, poor roads, or just generally isolated by distance) to the ones that were near and/or influenced by a western diet of grains and sugar.
            So you are then looking at highly similar genetic groups and attempting to find the main difference among the groups.
            Western foods immediate destroyed their teeth and facial structure.
            Perfect teeth and jaws no matter where you went until sugar and grain were introduced and then they had rotted teeth and malformed jaws that led also to crooked teeth.
            It's documented with photography of the groups and their diets.

            This was the same regardless of macro nutrient break down.
            For instance the Gaelic swiss ate almost all dairy and cheese (the isolated by mountain passes ones).
            The eskimoes ate almost zero carbohydrate.
            The phillipinos ate almost 90% carbs.
            All perfect teeth and jaws and generally attractive.
            A single generation of western diet ruined it.
            This was in the 20s or roundabouts.

            Here is another one that I came across about seven or eight years ago. Basically talks about semantic reactions and the way word are abstracted and that their misuse makes people basically insane.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            there is a tribe that gets most of their calories from honey and they are completely healthy

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Based Korzybski and Weston Price at the same time poster, this was a riveting watch for me:

            If Korzybski is too difficult, Language in Thought and Action by Hayakawa may be a softer introduction

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I will check out Hayakawa as by coincidence I have seen him mentioned now twice in a couple days on here and I live my life by this sort of serendipity.
            Korzybski is quite dense and almost at a meme level of difficulty.
            He suggests reading his book twice. Which at first I was like, yea...right.
            But I am currently reading it the second time. Bit by bit at bed time...
            I'll check the video out too.
            Thanks.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Vitamin D is not available in plants
            But that's false

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I'm not sure where you are getting that from?
            Who said that?

            For the eskimos they presumably got vitamin d from the fish they ate.
            Others would have had sufficient sun.
            But that's just me attempting to follow you because his book is just straight up here is what I did and here is what I saw.
            He doesn't claim to know or fully explain the cause.
            He is just reporting. There was a time where people were disinterested (in the true sense of the word) and just wanted to report the facts.
            I'd suggest reading the book.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    truuuu. I always thought the first 1/3 was way more useful than the rest of the book for non fiction books

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i’ve always done this and it makes people seethe i finish a book if i want to but i never force myself to finish i’ll just skim through what’s left once i feel done with it. forcing myself to finish prevents the natural flow of reading what i want to discover next or just makes me avoid reading. finishing books for the sake of is for slaves.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't think you have to read even that much. And non-fiction books often started from an article, which says everything the author has to say about the subject anyway. And the book is just a way to make money off of what was already said in the article. Non-fiction books are typically 90% filler.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yea, I have encountered a lot of these type books. They tend to be modern era and from the 90s on once publishing became so easy and cheap and big chain bookstores had no problem ordering 100,000 of anything they could to fill the shelves.
      But there are a lot of books that have 200+ pages of good content.
      And it's not even to say the last 20-40% isn't decent reading, but I have heard my whole life people get down because they "didn't finish a book" or "can't finish a book" and I don't really know why.
      People should have no shame in putting down a book as soon as they are done.
      I only finish probably 1/10 books I start and they are typically something like pic related that is short and too the point. Under 200 pages.

      You REALLY need to be saying something to drag on past 200 pages and most authors are not.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >And non-fiction books often started from an article, which says everything the author has to say about the subject anyway
      The good non-fiction books are a series of articles rather than a single one

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What a lazy homosexual

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've been caught out.
      At least I learned more than you.

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