Bro-Watch 2021: "How I Speed Read" 

Don’t knock it til you try it; I took the dude bro approach to reading a Tale of Two Cities, and I can tell you that I was not disappointed. Failing to find the author’s Ted Talk for the book, I got with the modern times and skimmed the first chapter or so, and it’s delightful! What a wonderful story about a girl reuniting with her long lost father! Since the other chapters are probably just saying the same thing in a different way, I decided not to waste any more time finishing (snort) the book since I was already so pleased with myself for having figured it out. I then had the rest of the afternoon free to scroll aimlessly for several hours on social media. Life hacking, baby.

'Don't procrastinate inefficiently!' I want that on a t-shirt!

How to read 1,000 books a year. 1: Buy 1,000 books. 2: quit your job. 3: Sit in a chair and read.

I have ADHD and I love to read!

"One ring for the Dude-bro Lord on his minimalist throne In the Land of the XXI century where aimless boys lie. One Ring to scam them all, One Ring to sell them life advice, One Ring to bring them all and in the broness bind them In the Land of Iowa where the cow poop lies"

Omg Steve... This is brilliant. I can't wait for more of this content. Read 1000 books in a year the modern way- by not reading! 🤣🤣🤣 So funny, entertaining and very valuable here

I am SO down for more of these kinds of videos! They are so fun!

Him calling this “speed reading” is very odd. High school students that read the SparkNotes summary of Macbeth aren’t speed readers. They just don’t read.

I could only watch the first 23seconds before I threw up in my mouth. Thanks for taking one for the team.

I would love to see Mark Twain's TED talk!

My favourite bit is when he says "it's not enough to say 'this is really valuable content, thanks Andrew'" 😄

I’m off to wallow in The Last Chronicle of Barset gloriousness.

Great video! I look forward to more throughout the year. I had a quick look at the guy's video. Even at 2 times speed I couldn't watch the whole thing. I definitely won't be watching any of his other videos!

I can’t think of anything more depressing than listening to 15,000 minutes of Blinkist. And why would you trust someone else to tell you what the most important parts of a book are. Isn’t avoiding reading a book by listening to a synopsis a form of procrastination?

Super video Steve! Thanks!

I will have the pop corn out for this series. It's a weird coincidence that i watched your new book tuber tag that you done 4 years ago where you quote C S Lewis something along the lines of looking at the you non reader friends and seeing how small their world is. I feel this aptly applies to this young gentleman

“There’s gold in them there dude bros” haha

There's lots of value to be extracted from this video. Guaranteed good ROI 👍

"Just about long enough for your pre workout amphetamines to kick in and then you're at the gym." Comedy gold! 😂 I've actually stumbled upon one of these videos recently and briefly considered sending it to you. Will do it in the future, this is too entertaining! I've read 76 books last year despite decreased concentration in the beginning of the pandemic and feel that was already an achievement. I once tried out listening to a 15 min summary a la blinkist on scribd - which I use to listen to *shock horror* full length audiobooks - and it was torture. I think I need a short video of your tip against procrastination to play every morning.

Ha I stopped reading the cliff notes in 1986 American English in 11th grade. On the very first test everyone failed the test as there were no questions where the material could be found in the cliff note. The teacher was smiling ear to ear that day 😂

I am speechless. You are taking me into a world I did not know existed and undermining my faith in humanity. How many subscribers absorbing this nonsense? I need to go and read some Milton to restore my equanimity.

"You should read what you like and drop what you don't like" I want that T-shirt!

I wonder how blinkist makes those 15 minute summaries?Might I suggest, by reading the whole book. No one reads the whole thing though....

2021 just got better w Bro watch!

Methinks there is much drama pending.

Thank you Steve for being the Lucian we desperately need!

I can read a 1000 books a year read what I quaintly call the "backs of the books" (I know I am so last century!) I think Andrew Kirby might class that as reading.

Frankenstein reading indeed 😬 Yikes! That is super sad. Thanks for the debunk.

How to read a thousand books a year:you don't and shouldn't want to. Cosmic librarian guru🙌🏽 thank you for this video. Enjoyment is just as important as productivity and when you can combine them both with reading makes it worth all the while finishing a book cover to cover. Keep it up😁

I went back to watch this after you mentioned this series in a recent video and I laughed so hard! 💀 Omg. Sometimes I question my own generation, but then I do meet so many actual young readers that my fear is a little assuaged.

"Fractal wrongness": I am storing this term away for future use.

As someone who loves reading I had a smile on my face throughout your critique. I'd love to watch a Ted talk by Charles Dickens or Thomas Hardy, or maybe read the blog posts which they (and other long-demised authors) turned into novels! Maybe I'll forgive you for your previous comments about cats and resubscribe. Towards the end of the vid you used the phrase: "kick around this little kitten." Oh dear!

I'm aligning my frontal lobe with reading now. It's a tedious fruitless work but someone has to do it. Oh, man. I found Danila Comastri Montanari and her Publius Aurelius Statius series, all by myself. I wish I hadn't been such a lazy procrastinating bum and learned to read Italian. I wonder if she's as good as John Maddox Roberts. Anyway, I bought first two books (translated into Russian) my frontal lobe is all aligned towards them and doesn't give a damn about The Landmark Thucydides or Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities we started reading in 2020. Thankfully, the books won't be here until a day after tomorrow, I might yet squeeze a Tolstoy novella in.

You knocked this video out if the park. You're a crack. Cheers

Ah yes - book fracking .

Something interesting that I’ve noticed since I jumped back into reading. Particularly historical books. I constantly stop to look up unfamiliar word definitions or stop and read an entire Wikipedia page on some place, thing, or person before jumping beck into the book and continuing.

I have ADHD and I read? Huh I've never heard of that before, but it sounds like something people would say. I've quit TV and have gone over to audiobooks/regular paper books. Great channel, great books, always interesting. Thanks. Be safe

His video is unlisted and has a lot of negative comments. His channel makes my stomach turn.

I think that is the UK Vintage Books 50th Anniversary edition of Catch 22. It is a weird cover design, the 22 on the front cover are dog tags.

What version of the Decameron is lurking there at your left shoulder, yellow spine? Looking for an edition I could read as part of your Western Canon.

If I read all these comments, is this an equivalent to a cow-crap 'War and Peace'?

Remember the commercial of the man performing amazing surgery on a patient? The man admitted he was not, in fact, a doctor; however, he did stay at a Holiday Inn (or whatever hotel it was) the night before? Andrew is an expert at the learned age of twelve. In truth, he likely is unable to read on a third grade level.

HA. I am a software engineer. I have met a lot of guys at school and work who thinks about books in these terms. I have given up trying to defend why I read fiction.

If I may, I would like to express my interest in you exploring and positing your opinion regarding nonfiction writer Ryan Holiday, notably known for extolling stoicism as a ‘practical philosophy’. I’m of the opinion that you’d find it worthwhile examining him and his brand of dude-bro, especially given his prominence. To speak personally on him, I’d consider him to be of the benign but beneficial variety.

I took a look at the guy's video, and now it's Unlisted, probably because the comment section is full of ppl making fun of him. So I guess that's 1 out of 3 million bro-tube videos down.

I didnt last 2 minutes. It's like watching a train crash over there. I spent more time reading the comments, of which many are very critical. And yes you're right about Catch-22. Something weird is going on there. Could the number 22 be of subliminal significance to bro-tubers ? 😉 On my edition, on the spine, the number 22 is actually at right angles to the word Catch. Not sure if other editions are like that. If his was like that perhaps he felt the need to "fix it" !

Judging by the comments on the video, It seems like the little dandelion got his feelings hurt and now the video is listed as "Unlisted".

Hilarious 😆

While I agree with your thoughts that "Bro-Tube" is a generally bad thing with guys just looking to take advantage of others, I don't understand why you would group David Pakman with them? I would love it if you could explain to me why he is included with all of those other people. 21:52 for context.

Oh! I guess I am already older than my grandparents.

Thank you for the video. No wonder, you didn't understand his reference to deep-learning. That is a buzz-word from the computer science, describing how to bring lot of information into an AI. So as long Dude-Bro has no USB-Port, there is no deep-learning by reading.🤖

Oh good grief...

I feel like I am back at Info 1, miss these insights.

"I just want to make sure you are calm while listening to this." AH! Let me calmly sip my tea with murderous intent. x'D

franzen writes eloquently about how only a very small percentage of people have an extreme need to read books, but only a small persentage!

I'm glad you linked to the video, there's no possible way I could have believed this is real without proof!! Lol. A classic dude bro douche in his natural habitat!

Tim Ferriss

does he have a TEDtalk??

if this counts as reading then you just need to watch booktube and you are 'reading' all those books. Yay i read 1000 books!

I had no idea that this genus of grifter was known as the "dude-bro." To play devil's advocate a little, I believe Andrew Kirby sings praises of The Meditations of Marcus Aurileus in his videos, which I assume he has actually read. If he has, not everything he is voluntarily reading is crap.

Sounds like a video I accidentally watched a couple of years ago by someone else. Specifically gloating about 1000 books in a year. So I'm going to guess that this is a templated grift that many regurgitate. My version of his #2 tip is: Life's too short to read books you don't enjoy.

I’ll never get that time back. What a lot of utter b.s. that was. Where on earth does he get this crap from? Does he make it up as he goes along? Next time I’ll just watch your video and not punish myself by taking a look on my own.

Speaking of grifters, how about a video pondering the contents of Der ÜberGrifter's proposed $2BILLION Presidential Library?