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What does it mean?
Ideas and influences from books can impact you even without direct reading.
In plain terms
Books that I never read still changed my life.
What can you take from it?
Exposure to knowledge matters even indirectly.

Where it applies

  • intellectual environment
  • general awareness

Putting it to work

  • curate surroundings
  • absorb culture

Questions to consider

  • Do you need to read to learn?
  • What influences you indirectly?

Another view

Direct reading usually has a stronger impact than indirect exposure.

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