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The Top 13 Takeaways from “Rise of the Reader,” by Nick Hutchison
Your cheat codes to becoming a world-class reader
It’s said that the person who doesn’t read books has no advantage over the person who can’t read them, and this one’s absolutely true.
Almost every single person you look up to, who have led great lives, accomplish magnificent things, and have elevated themselves above their initial circumstances have credited large parts of their success to a habit of lifelong, dedicated reading and a love of the profound ideas found in great books.
You almost literally can’t read a biography, memoir, or even an article about someone influential and impressive in some way without hearing about how their parents read to them when they were younger, their teachers inspired a strong love of reading early on, or about how they were lucky enough to stumble upon that one book that “started it all.”
All three of those things happened to me too.
What I’m saying is that it can’t all be a coincidence.
There must be something in books, something you can’t find anywhere else (at least not delivered in the same way) that propels these powerfully influential people forward in life.
The author of Rise of the Reader, Nick Hutchison, feels the same way, and he’s…
