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How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler covers when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text. Plus there is a great reading list in the Appendix.

Excel.

Basic programming skills.

Read "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler. (mostly for nonfiction readers interested in making connections)

If you're a student, learning to use /r/Anki. It will probably change your life. It certainly changed mine.

Alpha is formally defined as being relative to the appraisal of a social group. You can't learn to act alpha, members of your social group (implicitly) denote it instead thus that person becomes the leader of that group.

What is the point that you're making? That being "alpha" is just "acting" apart or different from others?

If so, I won't bother entertaining your naivety. Before you critique the opposition, come to an understanding first.

I'm feeling genuinely nice, so here's a start: How to read ~~a book~~ and understand prose by Mortimer J. Adler.

How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and the reading list at the back is a good place to start.

I would recommend How to Read a Book. It has an interesting way of capturing knowledge from a book, evaluating it, and if you find it necessary, connecting it with other books and what they have to offer. I used it to produce a template in Notion for all the books that I read, and when I find it useful, I connect knowledge from books and articles in Obsidian.