I don’t read books (that often)
I find myself reading maybe 1 book every year. I feel it’s affected my growth/intelligence, and I want to get better.. I’ve been reading more. What else can I do?
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I find myself reading maybe 1 book every year. I feel it’s affected my growth/intelligence, and I want to get better.. I’ve been reading more. What else can I do?
Unfortunately, not reading books is normal.
Random aside:
It took me a while to be able to articulate why reading books, no matter what the kind, is different from reading anything else. I got it down to this: Authors regularly use words that nobody in their right mind would ever use in real life. As a result, you get smarter by reading books because they force you to expand your vocabulary just to finish them.
Just about every other piece of writing you can find is written with either a layman's vocabulary (forums, texts) or is written specifically to appeal to laymen (news articles, blogs, guides, etc) so they're not going to use big or unused words.
Story authors, meanwhile, will just go ahead and invent words that don't exist if they think it fits the story.