What is the top hobby that makes you smarter? Reading. Anything -
books, news, online, offline. I read on the train to and from work,
thirty minutes each way, five days a week.
If you want a smarter child, teach them to read as early as you can and
give them a reason to love it. The moment they can read, they can teach
themselves, and that is a lifelong advantage over anyone who never got
there.
In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in South Carolina
because a nine-year-old Black boy refused to leave without borrowing
books. He went on to earn a PhD in physics from MIT, and died in 1986
aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that turned
Ronald McNair away is now named after him.
