The unintended benefits of reading several books at the same time - multi-disciplinary thinking in action
I used to think that reading is something very sacred, so I should dedicate my undivided attention to read one book at a time. Until I find out how much more thinking could be provoked by reading different books in the same period. It's not something that I intend to do at first. It all happened when I started to read the first book that is showing up on my Kindle library, only to realize later that this is not the one that I have started the day before. But as the content was very engaging, I didn't want to put it down and go back to the other book. Somehow, although the two books are talking about different things, my brain started to make connections before the two, shedding new lights into the content of both. Since then, I would intentionally mix the books that I read, in the same period. And I would try to pick them from different subject areas, even they seem to be completely unrelated to each other. The approach would naturally confuse my brain about...