Lyrics Read What You Love Until You Love to Read - Akira the Don, Naval Ravikant

Read What You Love Until You Love to Read

The foundation of learning
Is reading
I don’t know smart person who doesn’t read
And read all the time
The problem is
What do I read
How do I read
Because for most people its struggle and a chore
So, the most important thing is to learn how to educate yourself
And the way to educate yourself is to develop a love for reading
Read what you love until you love to read
Read what you love until you love to read
Read what you love until you love to read
It’s that simple
Everybody I know who reads a lot love to read
And they love to read because they read books they loved
It’s a little a bit of a catch-22
But you basically want to start off just reading wherever you are
And then keep building up from there until reading becomes a habit
And then eventually you will just get bored of the simple stuff
You may start up reading fiction
Then you may graduate to science fiction
Then you may graduate to nonfiction
Then you may graduate to science or philosophy or mathematics or whatever it is
But take your natural path
And just to read the things that interests you
Until you can understand them
And then you’ll actually move the next thing
And the next thing
And the next thing
Read what you love until you love to read
Read what you love until you love to read
Read what you love until you love to read
It’s that simple
At some point there’s too much out there to read
And even reading is full of junk
There are actually things you can be especially early on
That will program your brain a certain way
And then later
Things that you read you will decide whether those things are true or false
Based on the earlier things
So it is important that you read foundational things
And the ultimate is when you walk into a library
And you look at it up and down
And you don’t fear any book
You know that you can take any book off the shelf
And you can read it
You can understand it
You can absorb what is true
You can reject what is false
And you have a basis for working that out
That is logical and not purely based on opinions
Read what you love until you love to read
Read what you love until you love to read
Read what you love until you love to read
It’s that simple
The beauty of the Internet is the entire Library of Alexandria
Times 10 is at your fingertips at all times
It is not the means of education
Or the means of learning are scarce
The means of learning are abundant
It is the desire to learn that’s scarce
So, you really have to cultivate that desire
And it’s not even cultivated you have to not lose it
Children have a natural curiosity
If you go to a young child who is first learning a language
They’re pretty much always asking
What this?
What’s that?
Why’s this?
Who is that?
They’re always asking questions
But one of the problems is that
Our educational system
And our way of raising children replaces this curiosity with compliance
And once you replace the curiosity with compliance you get an obedient factory
worker
But you no longer get a creative thinker
And you need creativity
You need the ability to feed your own brain to learn whatever you want
Read what you love until you love to read
Read what you love until you love to read
Read what you love until you love to read
It’s that simple