Tom Peters Wants You to Read

“I think the people who run things ought to read a lot more psychology and social psychology and a lot less finance and marketing.” Peters said we shouldn’t limit ourselves to real-world case studies or carefully constructed arguments based on social science studies. “I think that our friends who we want to encourage to read ought to spend 40 percent of their reading time on fiction,” he said. “I don’t usually make it through 1,000-page novels, but I finished Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84. It’s about people; it’s about relationships; it’s about the nonlinearity of life. I think if you understand that kind of stuff, you can navigate the world a whole lot better.”