"If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. **You will not improve as a reader if all you read are books that are well within your capacity. You must tackle books that are beyond you**, or, as we have said, books that are over your head. Only books of that sort will make you stretch your mind. And unless you stretch, you will not learn." ([Location 4833](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004PYDAPE&location=4833)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[reading-books]], [[teachers]] **Source** -- [[20250103084100 - B - How to Read a Book]]