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Today's tip is to revisit a familiar book.

Re-reading something you enjoyed in a different phase of life can reconnect you to that time.

Or you might see new things in your current phase of life that you couldn't before.

I have noted in the past on this podcast that we are only going to read so many books in life.

If you live for 50 more years and read 50 books a year,

that is only 2500 more books. And frankly for many of us, those are both fairly optimistic assumptions.

So rereading a book seems like a waste. And yet I have found myself doing it recently.

Partly as a way to get back into the reading habit after the inevitable baby years slump.

And also just for curiosity's sake. I have revisited a handful of works and found new things

during this rereading that makes even classic works feel new. And like a good use of time.

For instance, this year I'm reading through all the works of Shakespeare.

I've read or seen a number of his plays in the past and so some are familiar.

But we approach them in different ways. For instance, when I first read Romeo and Juliet in

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