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Sarah Mitchell @ Silicon Canals · today 12:00 EDT

People who are well-read have these 8 advantages (and 3 frustrating disadvantages)

Being well-read transforms you into a pattern-recognizing, empathy-wielding intellectual force—but it also means suffering through shallow conversations while your brain screams about historical parallels and logical fallacies.

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