Oh nice! That’s super impressive. Maybe I’ll try see if I can catch up and beat you over the next few years 
That makes me wonder whether putting that much time into philosophy is worthwhile/helpful—like whether it improves one’s life/thinking or has much practical value or whether it’s more just trusting it’ll pay off in the future (despite nobody apart from ET having reached his level).
(Btw I don’t mean to burden you with the feeling that you need to respond. I’m just wondering out loud. Feel free to ignore me. I hope I’m not being annoying lol. Or polluting the forum with half-baked wonderings/musings/digressions.)
In my case, I haven’t put in that much time yet, but a few benefits that come to mind so far (this is just straight off the top of my head—it’s not a premeditated or anywhere near a complete list): I think I’ve felt much more serene due to having a better understanding of inner conflicts due to ET’s intuition articles and also Rand’s stuff on integrating reason and emotion. I assume I’m less conflicted about other stuff too like morality, e.g., maybe if I was an altruist I might feel a bit conflicted about that. Also, explicitly valuing rationality is helpful (whereas pre-Rand & ET I never thought about rationality per se). Also second-handedness (I might’ve got sucked into chasing a prestigious career/life otherwise). I’ve found Goldratt’s weakest link idea helpful. Those are just a few things that come to mind off the top of my head. I notice the thing almost all of ‘em have in common is making the inexplicit explicit and therefore tractable (like Rand talks about in PWNI).
I think the main benefit, though, is just that it’s interesting/fun.
I’m still not sure what my longer term goal is though. Maybe become a professional philosopher like Elliot?
Speaking of that, for a long time I used to just keep a kind of bullet point journal where I’d list like 2–4 (or so) of the main things I did that day. It was for non-philosophy tasks though. It was sort of like a reverse or after-the-fact to-do list (i.e., listing the main things I actually did that day). I’ll start that up again (for philosophy this time). I wonder if I should post it on the forum. Or create a website of my own to do it on if it’d clutter the forum to be updating that every day. Or create a single topic where anyone/everyone can post daily (or weekly) updates/accomplishments. Though idk if there’s much point in sharing that.
Thanks for sharing. It makes me wonder how to balance doing careful critical reading vs quick “binge” reading (which reminded me of another post of yours I saw). Or when to do which.
I guess the solution/answer is that careful critical reading is ideal but quick reading is better than nothing. Also one can always reread later. I suppose I should do more quick readings.