Alex & Books 📚
@AlexAndBooks_
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📖 Helping people find amazing books & develop a reading habit. 📧 Get my list of 100 life-changing books (link in bio).
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Joined March 2017
Brainrot (social media) is out. Brainrise (books) is in.
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Having more books to read than time available to read them is a blessing, not a burden.
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My reading life plan: -20s: self-help books -30s: business books -40s: classic lit books -50s: history books -60s: philosophy books -70s: religious books
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If you want new ideas, read old books. If you want old ideas, read new books.
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🔥 Don’t miss the fireside chat at our @PunchbowlNews event on Oct. 20! @AmericaInvests Council’s Will Dunham will join Anna Palmer to discuss how private capital supports jobs & small businesses.
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Most people think that starting books is optional and finishing books is mandatory. But the opposite is true. Starting books is mandatory but finishing books is optional.
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The Great Books guy (@JohnathanBi), the History Books guy (@BenWilsonTweets), and the Nonfiction Books guy.
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So few people read nowadays that if you read just 5 books on one subject, you’ll be in the top 0.1% of experts on that topic.
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Reading a book is a form of resistance training for the mind. You're resisting social media, notifications, the news, and other distractions. That's how you strengthen your attention span and focus.
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This is the type of short-form content you should be consuming. IYKYK.
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Not only are kids having trouble reading books, but so are adults: -1 in 5 adults are illiterate -54% of adults read below a 6th grade level -The percentage of adults who ranked the lowest in literacy is increasing
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Written in 1920. From “On the Art of Reading” by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
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It’s extremely popular on X to hate on self-help books and tell people to read classic literature instead. But there's a reason self-help books sell millions of copies every year. As great as classic lit is: Tolstoy won't teach you how to start a business. Lewis won't teach
Ditch this list and read these instead :) 1. The Old and New Testament 2. Mere Christianity 3. Tolstoy’s A Confession 4. Brothers Karamazov 5. Crime and Punishment 6. Anna Karenina 7. Ivanhoe 8. Moby Dick 9. The Once and Future King 10. The Four Loves 11. The Great Divorce 12.
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An open secret about reading books is that initially everyone struggles with it, but after a while it becomes such a joy that you start missing it on the days you don’t read. Push through the initial phase and build it into a habit. Your future self will thank you for that.
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"Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes." –Sylvia Beach
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Published in 1876 but truer today than ever before. From "The Royal Path of Life" by T. L. Haines
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Read these books: -Mindset -Can’t Hurt Me -12 Rules for Life -No More Mr. Nice Guy -Discipline Equals Freedom -Models, Mark Manson's first book
how do i become a better man
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Thank you to the 130+ authors who signed up for our workshop! 🥳 (and to the 60+ authors who joined us live in person) Quick question to all the authors out there: What topic would you like us to cover in a future workshop?
🚨 Attention Authors & Writers: Today is the last day to sign up for our "How to Sell More Books" workshop. 100+ People have already signed up. You'll learn 3 important topics every author should know: 1) How to use AI to edit your book (with key prompts you'll want to save)
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