The speaker says that, during a period of boredom and insufficient intellectual challenge, they read roughly 200 books in one year.

“So this was a very long time ago. Um, I went through a period of my life where I was like, reading constantly, actually.”

“I found myself like, very bored, um, of the stuff that I was doing, and I felt like I was just like, not being like, intellectually challenged.”

“And so I actually went on as a bit of a bender where I, I think I read something like 200 or so books in like a year. Um, and I was just curious about like every... I just wanted to like read everything.”