Thorwegian (old account) on Nostr: Although not a conscious decision, I think the reason I don't read books much is ...

Although not a conscious decision, I think the reason I don't read books much is because they're a long texts where only a small part is relevant to where I am in life.

They talk about listening skills, but more rarely discussed is adapting to the listener. A book doesn't adapt. It's like an old man droning on about something without noticing that the listener has fallen asleep.

Don Quixote defined the novel genre. It's too long. I think the writer did it to impress somebody. Most books take too long to get to the point. I usually just check summaries when people ask me if I read a book.

The flip side of listening skills is being too dumb to realise that you're hearing a lot of nonsense, so you just sit there like an idiot.