Read. Read Until Your Eyes Pop Out.

Then put them back in and read some more.

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No doubt you’ve come to Medium to read. And maybe get some tips on writing, in which case you need to read more.

So I’m already preaching to a choir loft of readers.

But I’ll say it anyway. READ!

Please read. Anything. Everything.

Reading is the quickest way to self-awareness, which is the first step in self-improvement.

You get to learn how others overcome their own obstacles, which probably are not so different from yours.

Read to yourself. Read to your kids. Read to your pets. (Sure, why not?)

Go to a senior center and read — folks there would love it.

Volunteer to read at a local school — kids would love it, and so would their teachers.

Read to your partner. Who knows what might come of it?

We were watching part of a Simpsons marathon the other day, and my son said how glad he was that we read to him and our daughter all the time.

The Simpsons? Oh, yeah. Smart, highly literate people write those shows. If you’re not a well-rounded reader, you’re going to miss half their jokes.