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How To Simultaneously Be On The Internet And Read All The Books And Achieve Great Success And Wealth By Telling People How To Live

How To Simultaneously Be On The Internet And Read All The Books And Achieve Great Success And Wealth By Telling People How To Live

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I am feeling kind of f***ing cheated right now, and I wonder if others in my position are feeling the same. When I started regularly reading books, at the end of my misspent teens, it was my understanding that I would from that point on have instant recall of the details from every one that I read: character names, ideas, memorable phrases, plot, at my …

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