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Okay, let's get this party started. Apologies. Thanks for dealing with it. You know, it's the state of things, I suppose.

All right, here we go. First question, Luke, to what extent does reading books and lifting weights in my front yard with homeless folks increase the upper bound limits of my potential

seriously on the books though so we will ignore the lifting weights part which was just a

joke I suppose on the reading books I mean do I have to really sell you folks on reading

books about why they're important obviously will depend on what you read and to what extent you read them do you finish them do you

go all the way where are you getting your reading selections from you know that kind of

a thing.

But in general, it's always going to be better to do the reading.

I put up a post on Instagram about it.

There's a lot of times people will like send me like short video clips

or just photos or like a quote, and they'll ask me to get a reaction to it and the

answer is I don't have a reaction to it 99% of the time I mean sometimes you can get a

reaction to it but a lot of it you don't really understand the greater context

of what they were trying to say. It's just a really

incomplete way to make a judgment. But the value of reading books should be sort of

self-evident. It can increase your vocabulary. It can give you a new ways of

thinking about the world. It can provide simply major points of information.

It can help you reimagine how you understand

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