“Sure, one can argue that reading in the context of self-development can feel obligatory at times; however, the return was not about getting good grades, it was about getting good at life.”

Who said it, and where.

Who said “Sure, one can argue that reading in the context of self-development can feel obligatory…”? Isaac Mashman said it in his essay "My Relationship with Books, Reading, and Why I Decided to Become an Author", Executive Thoughts, July 10, 2025, first published on Medium.