Why Do Some Smart People Dislike Reading?

Vinay Kumar Thum
New Writers Welcome
3 min readNov 24, 2021

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Do you know what is that one common thing between the successful and influential people like Abdul Kalam and Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg?

They are all voracious readers. They read a lot.

In an interview, Warren Buffet was once asked about his key to success. He pointed to the stack of books and said, “Read 500 pages a day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest”.

When Elon Musk was asked how he learned to build rockets, he simply replied, “I read books.”

Probably if you are still reading this line, then I believe that either you love reading or at least have a habit of reading something.

You might have seen most of them in your circle who love reading or have a habit of reading books. That percent is just a small dot in the bigger circle. Most people hate books and hate reading in general. Most of them rarely open a book as soon as their education is completed or get a decent job.

So, why do most people have a dislike towards reading books? Below are some of the reasons why people hate reading.

1) Parents not promoting reading

As a parent one should always inculcate the reading habits in their children at an early stage. Most…

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Vinay Kumar Thum
New Writers Welcome

A Software Engineer who loves to write more than just coding | I read, write, and repeat about Books, Self-Improvement, Life, Motivation, and other stories.