I always did good at school, like have consistently been top 3 but most importantly have been performing like this without putting that much effort.

Today I am fully convinced that it was because for my whole youth I had been reading like a mofo, I read anything I could put my hands on, ranging from classics books, magazines, to disney & other comics. My brain was trained and education was very easy to do.

I was still reading books while commuting to my first jobs, but the frequency of reading went down and eventually halted. The quality and enjoyment of my life as a whole degraded and I realized that only once the pandemic hit and I got back into reading.

Reading technical stuff or internet is not the same. Going through entire chapters or through a whole book in one go requires another kind of focus. The big issue of attention span deficit that society has is because people do not read, you won't change my mind on this topic.