How to Read Books That Challenge Your Mind: Advice from Robert Greene, Author of The 48 Laws of Power

How to Read Books That Challenge Your Mind: Advice from Robert Greene, Author of The 48 Laws of Power If you’ve fallen out of the habit of reading books, you’re certainly not alone. Consider how often posts circulate on social media (itself a big part of the problem) about studies showing a rapid increase in the number of people who don’t even get one book read per year. How best to get back on the literary wagon? You might try going straight for the hard stuff, as it were, by taking on a novel like Moby-Dick. But that, according to the view articulated in the video above by The 48 Laws of Power author Robert Greene, would be like stepping back into the gym after years away and trying to bench press 300 pounds. Rather than starting with Melville’s masterpiece, build your way up to it — but once you get to it, you’ve got to finish it. “You want to train yourself to finish books, and not constantly be going from one to another to another,” Greene says, and that holds ev

Added 24 Mar 2026