Tate on Reading Books
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In this episode, I talk about why I don't read books and how I supplement my knowledge with other things. I also talk about how you can become a genius if you supplement your knowledge with something other than just reading a book. I hope you enjoy this episode and if you like it, please subscribe, like, share, and tell a friend about it! Peace, Blessings, Cheers, DM me :) -T.S. Eliot Tim Ferriss Steve Jobs Jim Carrey John Wooden Michael Jordan Albert Einstein Charles Dickens Thomas Edison Leonardo da Vinci Carl Sagan Martin Luther King Jr James Ayn Rand Henry David Thoreau Robert F. Boyle Ralph Lauren Jack Dorsey Tom Pendergrass Stephen King George Orwell Oscar Wilde The Facts and much more. Enjoy and spread the word to your friends about this episode! If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and tell me what you think about it in the comments section below! I'll be listening to it on Anchor.fm and the next episode will be posting it on the Anchor channel on the next Monday! Thanks for listening and sharing it on your social media! :) Love ya! -Jon Sorrentino Jon Rocha Don't Tell a Friend about it on Insta: - Subscribe to the podcast Tweet Me! Insta= Instapod=a&t=1& tag=a Subscribe & tag=Apostcode=aPodcast&ref=a_a&q=AQ&qid=8VUYQ&a=aQA&qref=8P&qb=8AQA=A&tr=3QQAQI&qAQQQ&s=3P3QPt=Aq&q&aQQI'll send it to a friend who needs to know what you're listening to this episode? Thank you for listening to the episode, Jon talks about it? Jon gives his thoughts on how to become a better version of this episode of the podcast and how to be a genius and how he's going to be better at it.
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Stop asking me what books I read. I do not read books. I don't read books. I never read books.
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I've already told the story of the one book I've read in my adult life when I was in a jail cell.
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I don't read books any other time unless I literally am in jail. I refuse to read books
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and the reason I refuse to read books is because I do something that supplements reading books and
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it's called living life. Reading books is a very cheap way to, I guess, entertain. I wouldn't call
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it entertainment because my brain is far too advanced. I'm too smart to read. I need to sit
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there and go, smart people read. No, I need action. I need constant chaos in my life to feel content.
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I need to be driving a supercar and fucking fighting, fucking a bunch of hoes and champagne
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and going crazy. I can't just sit there. Oh, oh, and the pirate on the boat. It's for people with
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slow brains. You know, there's different kinds of intelligence and there are smart people with slow
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brains, but the smartest people in the world also have quick brains. My brain moves quickly
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and I can't read a book. I can't read a book. I can't do it. There's no book thrilling enough.
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It's the same reason why I can't watch TV. I cannot watch Netflix. I can't because if I sit and put
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Netflix on, I end up just sitting on my phone because my phone, I can do a whole bunch of stuff and
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Netflix is just background noise. It's not enough to entertain me. No show is thrilling enough.
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I can't, I can barely watch YouTube videos because people talk so slowly. Have you ever YouTube
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something? Like how to use your phone's camera, whatever, some bullshit. Hi, welcome to the channel
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today. Today I'm going to show you how to use your phone's camera. So before we start, if you'd like
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to subscribe, skip, skip, skip. I can't even fucking listen to their shit from one three fucking
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second. It pisses me off. Everything's slow and reading books is exceptionally slow. So
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how do I supplement the knowledge that books provide and how did I become such a genius?
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Well, there's two answers to that question. One, I don't think books provide knowledge.
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Books provide information, but information is not knowledge. My kickboxing coach used to
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say to me, there's one way to learn a lesson, the hard way. And there's only one other way to
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learn a lesson, the harder way. And it's absolutely true. You have to feel it to believe it.
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I don't think it's 911 since he's never really a given tool in progress. It's, you know,
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the harder way to learn a lesson. When you're listening to the wind doesn't deliver
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like the energy stand. It's perfectly honest. You have to feel it but you're
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the harder way entsprech at the rise. You do it. I'll resist my thoughts on how to
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affect your components and your life. And I'll show you all and act fine with them.
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You have to feel it. You have to feel it yeah. Make sure it's my experience of
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so you can read all the books in the world about how getting married is stupid and you're gonna
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get divorce raped in the west and the woman's gonna take all your money but you're gonna meet
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some chick and fall in love with her and marry her anyway because you're an idiot but if you get
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divorced raped once and you won't do it again there's only one way to learn a lesson the hard
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way so you may be reading all this information but do you know anything no you don't know anything
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you only know things by doing things by living so one of the ways i supplement the fact that i never
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read is i live and i live a very interesting life and i do what i want all the time and i have the
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capability to do anything i want to do so while you'll sit and read about taoism or stoicism like
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a dork i can fly to china and go into a taoist temple and say i want to live here for a month
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i can do these kind of things so i live my life all of my knowledge everything i've ever said in
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these tape speeches comes from things i've lived things i've done i do things and i don't want
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anyone to ever think that reading something is the same as doing something because doing something
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will teach you lessons far faster than reading anything try and do give an example i can't play
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piano you can't play piano there's a piano here i sit there and start trying to play piano by myself
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just pressing keys fucking around trying to get stuff that sounds good fucking around with the
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pedals whatever whatever another guy sits there and only reads a book about piano and doesn't touch
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the piano in six months who will be able to play piano better me or him me because i've been doing
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things while he's been reading things reading isn't real life all the time you spend reading if you were
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to fuck it off and spend living you would learn more if you did the right things problem is most
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you dorks you're either broke or you're lazy so if you throw reading away then what you're going to
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do is just watch tv you're not going to do anything but if you were to actually go living instead you'd
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learn things that's one of the first points i have about reading the second point i have about reading
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is another reason i don't read is because i play chess and when you play chess chess is completely
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different than reading because reading is static reading is just information consume the information
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chess is constantly changing and evolving and moving no two chess games are the same so it's
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very much like life you have to apply knowledge you know on an unfamiliar situation at all times
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it's completely unfamiliar so chess supplements reading completely if you can choose between the
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two choose chess i think the only reason people read nowadays anyways because it's an easy way to gain
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some kind of bragging rights it's bragging rights without pain it's bragging rights without danger
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hey hey you seen all these books i read you sat still and you turned pages like if i'm gonna brag
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i'm gonna brag about shit i did which others can't do dangerous things that takes balls because the
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current education system is read read read it's not do do do it's read read read and that's why most
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people who come out of school can't do shit that's why college university is a complete waste of time
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i did not go to university the most successful people i know did not go to university i do not have
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four years to dedicate to sitting there reading books of outdated knowledge when all the latest
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information in the world's on my internet google browser for free anyway and listen to some dork
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who's never made any money in his life tell me how to live my life it's complete garbage if you meet
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anyone who's successful near any field most of them didn't go university now i understand there's
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some professions where you need to go university to become a doctor blah blah blah i understand that
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my point is in general is that the whole education system is not based on doing things it's based
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on reading things and this is why if you want information on how to get something done you need
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to speak to somebody who can do stuff so if i'm going to learn piano i want to learn piano from
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somebody who plays piano not somebody who's read how to play piano i don't want someone to give me a
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book and say read this and we'll talk through it together no i want you to play piano motherfucker
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right here in front of me and i want to watch you do it and i want to try and see you do it i want
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one more time imagine you were to go up to a piano guy a guy playing piano is the best pianist you've
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ever heard he's a bad boy and you go up and say look i want you to play teach me how to play piano
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