I agree with this and have been trying to put it in practice myself.<p>Like OP, I was an avid reader during my school years and noticed that I wasn&#x27;t doing it as much the past couple of years. I realized most of the time that I could spend reading books I was spending reading articles from my RSS feeds, but many times just to get a sense of completion (like an Inbox Zero for my RSS feeds), which meant I didn&#x27;t really let them sink in or wasn&#x27;t doing any thinking of my own about them.<p>Realizing that it provided very little value, if any, I decided that I had to stop that and go back to reading only when I have the time to do so at my own pace, and only things that I <i>really</i> wanted to read, not that I felt I had to read for bogus reasons.<p>Going back to OP&#x27;s question, I do think that information overload is partly to blame here. At least for me, it&#x27;s taking a conscious effort to put this in practice and ignore a lot of the information that comes my way.