Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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00:00 What happens if you read for an hour a day every day
01:19 4 questions I'm going to answer
02:20 The numbers are bigger than you think
03:16 Reading speeds
07:27 Example scenarios
10:17 How many books is that?
11:47 How does that compare to the average American?
15:59 The Bible
19:00 Shakespeare
21:53 Charles Dickens
24:24 Star Trek books
27:04 The canon of Sherlock Holmes
28:56 The Dark Tower series
30:18 What happens if you want to read all of Stephen King?
31:58 John Steinbeck
32:13 Pulitzer Prize winners
33:50 Doc Savage
35:32 Your attention span
39:33 Your personal life
40:01 The invisible university
42:12 You become a now interesting person
43:03 Benefits of fiction and the importance of empathy
44:33 Your world becomes bigger
47:18 It's just an hour
48:05 Your identity
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