Generally love the ideas in here, but strongly disagree with this one:<p>>At first, if you decide to explore such titles, you’ll blame the author for not using simpler words and for not expressing himself better. And if there are long-winded sections where you don’t get what the premise of the idea is, you’ll most probably ditch the book and find something else to read instead.
>But these elaborate creations full of complicated phrases are what you need to level up your thinking.<p>Simple writing is clear thinking. Yes, limiting yourself to well-written materials will limit your exposure to many ideas. That's how constraints of any kind work.<p>But don't mistake long, meandering sentences with 10 dollar words as signs of genius.<p>They're signs of lazy writing, lazy thinking, and a desire to impress the reader with how smart the author is. Writing simply takes hard work. It's easy to write complicated sentences. It's easy to be hard to understand.<p>Clarity and conciseness are hard.<p>Hemingway, Vonnegut, Thompson... they wrote powerful, thoughtful works. So do Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger. So did Einstein. Their works be understood by anyone, despite the difficulty of their subjects.