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I’m super excited currently to be reading the following two books, [[Tesla, Wizard at War]], and [[The Gene]], by [[Marc Seifer]] and [[Siddhartha Mukherjee]], respectively. These two books aren’t super related, but I like reading a range of books, because it keeps me more excited. I like to diversify what I read on a daily basis. As I’ve said in previous blogs, I have certain playlists, for certain periods of time, and certain periods of mood, but I do also go one step further, I also have weekend books. The Gene right now is a fast paced weekday book, that I’m about to finish up, and it’s similar to the previous book that I read by [[Siddhartha Mukherjee]], [[The Song of the Cell]], and it’s pretty much why I started this book, because I genuinely really enjoyed his cell book. And I learned a lot, and as a result, I want to learn more from him, and his understanding of how the human body functions.

And for me this is a very important element for exploration, as it gives me a lot of ideas, that I would not otherwise have. And specifically, [[Tesla, Wizard at War]], this is a book about Tesla, who I know of, because I have heard of him, but I don’t actually know much about why Tesla was so famous. So for me it’s a super curiosity book, that I am reading in the weekends, along with some of my fiction books. And they’re separated, as there are certain books I care more than others, and they signify different thoughts patterns for me.

And for me, learning about different things actually keep me alert, as I used to just passively take in a lot of information, that didn’t actually mean anything to me anymore, and I would question, ‘why am I actually taking in all this irrelevant information,’ when I can actually be consciously deciding what I want to take in. And for me, books like these are the essence of amazing information, written by individuals who are curious themselves, about the topic that they are writing on. And nowadays, with all the social media, YouTube, Facebook, it’s easy to get inundated with information that is super half-assed, and it gets super annoying, because it’s just people saying things, and sometimes it’s just popular because they just put it on the spot, and maybe because of thumbnails, and titles, and reputation. But I think books take more power to create, and actually listening to a written book, that was also recorded in a audiobook format, I genuinely respect it so much more.

I’ve been watching a recent writing series, by [[Brandon Sanderson]], my favorite fiction author, and he had a really good quote that he said, that really resonated with me, and because of that I think I will treasure audiobooks even more now. He said, and I’m not saying it exactly, but back in the day, ‘audiobooks were in cassette formats, and only the hardcore people actually listened to audiobooks like The Wheel of Times, because it was super hard to actually listen to, and it was actually in a lot of cassettes, so it was also hard to carry.’ I think it’s incredible nowadays, being able to listen to an audiobook in a phone, and even audible, their collection list, and organization methods, it allows us to so easily to take in so much cool information, so easily. And with the right approach, gaining valuable insights, it’s just a matter of organizing, and seeing the actual pattern, rather then getting overwhelmed my unnecessary loaded information. 

And it’s pretty cool, once you spread the dense information, into several months, it really doesn’t seem that dense anymore, and it allows your brain to process the information, especially if you listen to a 12 hour book, in 1/2 an hour increments, when you can actually are able to focus. I find that amazing, and nowadays that’s one of the main reasons why I’m so excited to read these books. And of course I’ve read a lot of similar books in the past, so I have reference to core terminologies, and nowadays, I’m just widening the repertoire of knowledge that I have, with new information. And I think that is pretty cool.