Dipeeka Vaghela

@AlexAndBooks_ And this reading changed the life of lakhs of people of India and South Africa, if Gandhi had not read Gita at that time he might have not come to some principles of him like nonviolence and trusteeship which are still followed, and the history of India might be different !

“What are you reading? isn’t a simple question when asked with genuine curiosity; it’s really a way of asking, Who are you now and who are you becoming?” –Will Schwalbe

Wire up someone's brain while they read and you can watch it flip: paper puts them into deep-focus, problem-solving mode. A screen drops them into the same pattern as a wandering, half-checked-out mind. On paper, the brain runs on beta and gamma waves, the signature of being locked in. On a screen it slides to theta and alpha, lighter, more mind-wandering. As the breakdown puts it, it's almost like your brain is idling. And here's the twist. Print readers don't just understand more, they read faster too, by about 10 to 30%. Not by skimming. Their comprehension came out higher, not lower. Your brain is already optimized for paper in a way it isn't yet for pixels…

When machines replaced physical labor, the number of people who went to gyms skyrocketed. Now that AI is replacing mental labor, the number of people who read books will skyrocket. Books are training weights for the mind.

@AlexAndBooks_ Ok I am ordering that book 🫣

Buying more books than you can read isn't a bad habit. It's a healthy one: - It's a sign of curiosity, ambition, and optimism - You're investing in your home library and reading habit - You're supporting authors, bookstores, and the publishing industry

15 years ago, I decided to; • Wake up at 5 am • Exercise for 1 hour • Take a cold shower • Read daily 50+ pages • Settle for 4 - 7 hrs of deep work • Have a 50-minute walk • Sleep 7-8 hours a day. You must unplug from society's programming to be great as a man.

8 SENTENCES I WISH I READ EARLIER IN LIFE: 1) Be okay with people not liking you; most are still learning to like themselves. 2) You can always choose happiness, no matter what life throws your way. 3) Keep some things to yourself, even when you trust deeply. 4) Not everything will go as planned; flexibility is your greatest strength. 5) Your mental health will always matter more than your career. 6) Criticism is the price of building something meaningful; embrace it. 7) Don’t waste energy worrying about what you can’t control. 8) You become unstoppable once you realize you can stand alone.

Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else’s life. Do not let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.  And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. —Steve Jobs

"I want you to read one of the hundred great books every month. there is a readily available list."

@AlexAndBooks_ If you can watch an entire 40-minute episode of any show, you can read for 40 minutes.

@makailee Saw it and I loved it !! You did amazing work in this one !!! Many things match with what I read about it in books... That one scene was very emotional with the grandfather ...even I am feeling sorry for the sadness grandpa have felt at that time ...

Final Hours documentary premieres today! Watch tonight, 6 pm EST. theepochtimes.com/epochtv/final-…

@makailee This is something I didn't know thank youuu!!!

Do not text the people you love. A team at the University of Wisconsin found something that should change how you contact those close to you. Texting your own mother, right after something frightens you, does the same thing to your body as having no mother in the room at all. Nothing. The experiment was elegant. They recruited 68 girls aged 7 to 12 and put each one through a stress test: Stand in front of a room of strangers. Do mental math out loud. Give a short speech. The strangers keep their faces blank the whole time. If you remember being nine, you know what that does to a body. Pounding heart, sweaty palms, and one thought on a loop: I want my mom. So they split the girls into four groups. One got their mother in person. One heard her over the phone. One traded instant messages with her, the same comforting words, just typed onto a screen. The last group sat alone with no contact at all. Before and after, they measured two hormones. Cortisol, which rises when you are under stress. And oxytocin, the one that runs through your system when you feel safe and bonded to someone you trust. The girls who saw their mother, or just heard her voice down a phone line, dropped their cortisol and spiked their oxytocin. Their bodies relaxed, and comfort reached them. The girls who texted got nothing. Their cortisol stayed high, and oxytocin never moved. Hormonally, a girl texting her own mom was indistinguishable from a girl sitting alone with no mother. The phone group is the giveaway. There was no touch, no hug, no face, just her voice in the ear, and that alone switched the whole response on. Take the voice away and leave only the words, and the body acts as if no one came. The researchers think the reason runs deep. A voice, with its warmth and tone and rhythm, is hundreds of millions of years old. Writing is maybe 6,000. Your nervous system learned to be soothed by the sound of someone you trust long before any human could read a word, and a screen full of pixels never reaches that more primitive place. So the next time someone you love needs comfort, do not type. Call. Better still, show up and let them hear you.

Charlie Munger was one of the most successful and respected investors of our time. Munger was obsessed with reading and read 10-20 books a WEEK. Here are 25 reading quotes from him: 1) “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.” 2) “As long as I have a book in my hand, I don’t feel like I’m wasting time.” 3) “Most books I don’t read past the first chapter. I’m not burdened by bad books.” 4) “I don’t think you can get to be a really good investor over a broad range without doing a massive amount of reading. I don’t think any one book will do it for you.” 5) "Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.” 6) "It's been my experience in life if you just keep thinking and reading you don't have to work." 7) “If it’s wisdom you are after, you are going to spend a lot of time sitting on your ass and reading.” 8) “If you get into the mental habit of relating what you’re reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.” 9) “Warren and I do more reading and thinking and less doing than most people in business. We do that because we like that kind of a life. But we’ve turned that quirk into a positive outcome for ourselves. We both insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.” 10) "I have always loved to sit and read. And I never knew anything that was really worth a damn that wasn’t learned in that fashion.” 11) "If you take Warren Buffett and watched him with a time clock, I would say half of all the time he spends is sitting on his ass and reading." 12) “We read a lot. I don’t know anyone who’s wise who doesn’t read a lot. But that’s not enough: You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.” 12) “I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in the classroom, which is natural. I can’t remember when I first read Ben Franklin. I had Thomas Jefferson over my bed at seven or eight. My family was into all that stuff, getting ahead through discipline, knowledge, and self-control.” 13) "I am a biography nut myself. And I think when you're trying to teach the great concepts that work, it helps to tie them into the lives and personalities of the people who developed them." 14) “Obviously the more hard lessons you can learn vicariously, instead of from your own terrible experiences, the better off you will be. I don’t know anyone who did it with great rapidity. Warren Buffett has become one hell of a lot better investor since the day I met him, and so have I. If we had been frozen at any given stage, with the knowledge we had, the record would have been much worse than it is. So the game is to keep learning.” 15) "That sounds funny, making friends among the eminent dead, but if you go through life making friends with the eminent dead who had the right ideas, I think it will work better in life and work better in education." 16) “Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading.” 17) “It's just God's gift. If you're into self-education, there's nothing like reading. Of course, people who do a lot of it have an enormous advantage.” 18) "I don’t think you can get to be a really good investor over a broad range without doing a massive amount of reading. I don’t think there’s any one book that will do it for you." 19) “I either skim or read through 20 books a week. I get lots of books. I read a lot of biography and some history. I read almost no fiction.” 20) “I read myself to sleep every night. I read enormously. I like doing it. Not only that, what I found very early in life was that once I learned to read and handle elementary math, I really didn’t need professors or anything. I could figure out almost anything I wanted better from the written material than from having some professor tell it to me, because he’d be going too fast or too slow or telling me something I already knew or didn’t want to know. 21) "You look at [Andrew] Carnegie and [Benjamin] Franklin, they had a few years of primary school, they learned everything by themselves by reading. Whatever they needed, they just learned. It’s not that hard. Imagine educating yourself by firelight, no lamps, no electricity, after a day’s brutal work. Our ancestors had it tough.” 22) "The beauty of doing a lot of reading and thinking is that if you’re good at it, you don’t have to do much else." 23) “I think I learn a little something from everything I’ve read. I think that one of the reasons I was as economically successful as I was in life is because I read so damn much all my life, starting when I was about six years old. I don’t know how to get smart without reading a lot.” 24) “I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in the classroom, which is natural. I can't remember when I first read Ben Franklin. I had Thomas Jefferson over my bed at seven or eight. My family was into all that stuff, getting ahead through discipline, knowledge, and self-control.” 25) "But you know I spent my whole life with dead people. They’re so much better than many of the people I’m with here on earth. All the dead people in the world, you can learn a lot from them. And they’re very convenient to reach. You reach out and grab a book."

A habit that changed Charlie Munger’s life: Sell the first hour of every day to yourself. Spend it by reading, improving, and working on yourself. "I decided I was going to give the best hour of the day to improving my own mind. And the world could buy the rest of the time."

@AlexAndBooks_ I agree with this !! If we read right book at wrong time it won't help... I read alchemist during college and that felt great , read midnight library during sad and feeling low time and it changed everything for me. Timing is very important.

"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us." –Alain de Botton

@AlexAndBooks_ Recently bought 20+🤭🤭

"Think not of the books you’ve bought as a “to be read” pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood." –Luc van Donkersgoed

@AlexAndBooks_ Now tell us which old books we must read 😅

"I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old...A new book is still on its trial." –C.S. Lewis

Learning how @naval reads books will permanently change the way you read:

Time for the Antigone Spring Books Give-away! 40+ books and pamphlets on offer worldwide. Just repost this message and follow us, and on Sunday 3 names will be drawn. 1st chooses 20 things, 2nd 12, 3rd gets the rest. We'll add details of the items over coming days. Good luck all!

Brian Tracy on how to change your life: "Get up early enough to read for 30-60 minutes in something that is motivational, something that is inspirational, something that is educational. Something that uplifts your mind, what we call mental protein."