I Read 500 Books In My 20s - 5 Lessons I Learned

I read 500 books in my 20s. Most of them were self-improvement books. I've been reading since I was 17-years-old, now 27-years-old. I share 5 lessons I learned.

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0:00 Intro
0:07 Lesson 1 - Books don't teach me anything
2:08 The Power of Now Example
3:09 Lesson 2 - Hoarding knowledge doesn't make me wiser
4:13 What is knowledge?
4:56 How I approach reading now
5:55 The science delusion
7:00 Lesson 3 - Reading isn't better than other sources
7:20 Why I like books
8:11 The key to information consumption
8:33 Lesson 4 - Examine basic assumptions about life
9:53 The past doesn't exist
11:48 Books that helped me
12:08 Lesson 5 - I believe God exists
13:16 Pursuing the spiritual path
14:41 My first kensho experience
16:56 My first no-self experience

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[JonathanSoltero]

Been a year since your last video, nice to see you upload again.

Great lessons learned & I universally agree with them. You can read, watch, & learn all you want but true knowledge will come from using what you learned, acting on it, and experiencing it.

[GrowthMindsetChannel]

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one.” ~ George R.R. Martin 💪🏻🚀

[VamanNeurekar]

This channel suddenly evolved a lot after a year long break! Great to see the direction it is going in!

[JasonBolte]

Action is the key. Books can help you take the right action.

[OnePercentBetter]

Thank you to those for voting on the video title for this video in the community feed. Planning to also release a video: Reading 500 Books - Was It Worth It?

A few comments:

-It's a rainy spring here in South Australia so enjoy the rainy mood background sounds
-Books aren't useless per se. I've found they can be a fantastic guide or pointer to direct experience where the real learning happens. They can plant seeds that 'click' later and transform into understanding.
-What matters more than reading books is the motive for reading them
-I believe in God as Universal Love, Unconditonal Love, Consciousness, Acceptance, The Eternal - pick your word.
-This video was made 'off-the-cuff' and I am aware it has some imperfections, currently experimenting without a script
-As this channel moves from a focus on self-improvement to self-realization, there will be more ideas communicated that may not initially make sense due to my current level of competence in communicating them, my fallibility as a student, the paradoxical nature of the ideas, and the limitations of language.

Books mentioned in the video:


The most recent 5 books I've read:

Dirty Enlightenment by Peter Brown
Bringers of the Dawn by Barbara Marciniak
The Trap by David Icke


Looking forward to reading your comments 🙏

-Brandon

[VictorEkekrantz]

Great monolog, cool thing seeing someone express their inner thoughts like this and recognize some of them as omes own.

[theRanz]

After a long time mate, glad you are back 😊

[WhyKeepGoing]

It's been so long! Thanks for coming back.

[stRedCommander]

I agree. I remember I would hear people talk about not putting woman on a pedestal and it's like "DUH I know that" but until I actually went through an awful relationship I saw it and the knowledge was applied

[yungplayboysuk]

All the best on your spiritual journey 🙏🏽

[onemonthskill]

No way I just randomly clicked on your channel and bam you made a video yesterday! Welcome back

[IslamicAudiobooksCentral]

Thanks for sharing your experience :) and may God guide you on your spiritual journey.

[nikhil_mahajan]

Great to have you back mate. I can see a book by Osho in the pile. What are your reviews about his teachings ?

[zork]

regarding what you said about science and conepts and thoughts in your head. what are good reads about that? The Science Delusion book you mentioned in the quote?

[TinyNavigation]

Just found your channel and love the content! One thought that jumped out at me is that you could make a video for every book a few different ways for different demographics. For the demographic like me, it's a perfect fit; the content is organized, quick, informative, efficient, etc. But for other demographics (who may need the information even more), that style won't reach them as effectively. For example, a large demographic might be a little bit more creative and thoughtful (and maybe high), and for that demographic it would be helpful if the content was presented a little bit slower, pauses in between sentences or at least the main points, some nice music, and more engrossing visuals. Another demographic, women, may be more effectively reached if a woman presented the content. Just some ideas for you on how to spin the same videos multiple times to reach more people. Maybe something you haven't thought about.

[Tsourfetis]

It all sums up to 90% action 10% theory. In Christianity we learn that God is actually very simple you can talk to him with simple words, new age stuff is actually more complicated so to sound more profound which is a trap. God is simple. Great video : )

[zork]

what informations sources other than books did you found more valuable? (you mentioned it in the video but didn't say anything about it.)

[Greg-McIver]

The next breadcrumb, Jesus did not exaggerate. He really rose from the dead. Lots of false about him but that is real.

[gileneusz]

14:57 but wait. you've just told us the past doesn't exist...

[neillamas]

Summary:
What happens when someone intellectually ungifted tries to become clever by reading book and realize it doesn't work that way? He becomes religious. Why you ask? Because, surely, if he can't understand the universe then the universe must be magical somehow.