Here are some ideas to pump your mind when you read: Select carefully. Before you read a book ask: “How good an exercise for my creative mind will this provide?” Make the most of your reading time by sampling broadly and reading selectively.
My life. I use this as a method for finding seeds to plant in the minds of the people in my life. The way I think of it, if I find a new idea or aphorism from each book that I read and share it with a friend or co-worker, we can collectively come up with new ideas or a new perspective on initiatives that we’re working on. It’s a nice way to enrich each other’s lives.

