About this quote

A mind left without new ideas quickly starves and grows cold. You might think you are too busy to read, but you are actually just choosing to stay stuck in your own narrow experience. Books offer an immediate escape hatch from the limits of your daily routine. How can you expect to make smart decisions if you never fill your head with the thoughts of people who lived before you? Make space on your shelf and in your day, because feeding your brain is a basic survival need.

When to use it

• When packing up your apartment for a tight budget move and realizing your heavy boxes of paperbacks are the only non-negotiable items you refuse to sell.
• After a grueling week of digital meetings, you shut down your laptop and pick up a hardback novel to remind yourself what quiet focus feels like.
• When your child asks why the house has shelves in every room instead of a giant television screen, and you explain how those pages built your entire world.