So you're saying that reading is just entertainment, never learning?
Or are you just deciding in advance that all books about business are just worthless fluff?
Not sure what bad book you might have picked up in the past, but it seems your thinking is prejudiced.
We all get our learning where it gives us the greatest reward.
You chose Rutgers. (Was that just entertainment, not to be confused with learning?) The teachers/experts there are no better or worse than the teachers I've chosen, but might have been better for you or worse for me.
Some prefer hands-on experience. Some prefer classroom lectures and homework. Some prefer reading.
I like all three. I tend to get the biggest bang-per-buck reward from reading, but that's just me. No need to knock someone else's choice because it didn't work for you.
Or are you just deciding in advance that all books about business are just worthless fluff?
That's probably closest to what I think. "Worthless fluff" is a little harsh, but nearly every business book seems to be full of untested generalizations based on very limited/biased sample sizes. Influence, by Cialdini is one exception that comes to mind.
To really learn something in the sense of creating a model that represents reality with a reasonable certainty takes an enormous amount of effort - several orders of magnitude more than effort than self-declared business experts put into their books.
Or are you just deciding in advance that all books about business are just worthless fluff?
Not sure what bad book you might have picked up in the past, but it seems your thinking is prejudiced.
We all get our learning where it gives us the greatest reward.
You chose Rutgers. (Was that just entertainment, not to be confused with learning?) The teachers/experts there are no better or worse than the teachers I've chosen, but might have been better for you or worse for me.
Some prefer hands-on experience. Some prefer classroom lectures and homework. Some prefer reading.
I like all three. I tend to get the biggest bang-per-buck reward from reading, but that's just me. No need to knock someone else's choice because it didn't work for you.