Sometimes, you pick a book which seem interesting, and you end up like, what is this BS ?? It happened to me recently (and I will name it, it's "Medical Medium" !), and thinking about it, it's not necessary a waste of time, cause it challenges your "choices" in a way. I mean, I give a good value to this being a truth and to read something which is opposed to what you thought true can help to refine your thinking.
So, one time or another, it's not so hurting to read a "bad" book (yes, occasionnaly !), like a spiraling way to refine your thought. And for you, what do you think ? Did you also found an opportunity to learn something ?
So, one time or another, it's not so hurting to read a "bad" book (yes, occasionnaly !), like a spiraling way to refine your thought. And for you, what do you think ? Did you also found an opportunity to learn something ?
), sometimes it makes you refine a thought, analyze your own ideas and question whether they are based on facts or not, think about how to provide counter-arguments to what the bad author is saying, etc. I like it when the text has the opposite effect to what the author intended, and makes me think about why I definitely don't want to adhere to his or her views. Other times, it simply gives the opportunity for some healthy ranting! 
And it's usually a good reminder, for me at least, of how lucky we are around here, to have access to what is VERY often a much wider and complete view of some topics, dots connecting from many different fields, and being open to new data.
) so that you can dismiss the sources of disinfo much faster. Or, as Gurdjieff said, you grow a stronger 'magnetic center' for attracting 'B-influences' (for that, read In Search of The Miraculous by Ouspensky, if you haven't done so).
