…to love even, force us to walk through another’s thoughts, one word at a time, over hours and days. We share our minds for that time with the writer’s. There is a slowness, a forced reflection required by the medium that is unique. Books recreate someone else’s thoughts inside our own minds, and maybe it is this one-to-one mapping of someone else’s words, on their own, without external stimuli, that give books their power. Books force us to let someone else’s thoughts inhabit our minds completely.
… rapidly learn these new skills in just a few months. “To produce extraordinary results,” he says, “you don’t need an unlimited budget; you just need a better tool kit.” Intense short-term focus can create extraordinary results.